9219-19 Hide and Skin Processing Labourer
Performs routine tasks in leather, skin and hide tanning and finishing factories.
Skill Level:
The entry requirement for this occupation is completion of compulsory secondary education or higher qualification.
Tasks Include:
- unloads green hides and skins for fleshing
- fleshes hides by cutting out pieces of flesh, fat or hide
- lays out skins and hides for classing and re-stacks them for drying
- arranges hides and skins in stacks and tends heaters to dry them
- sprays dried hides with preservatives
- loads hides, skins and chemicals into treatment drums
- loads hides and skins into bales and assists in bale pressing and securing
- ridges wet blue-leather by cutting with knives
- moves hides and skins around tanneries
- cleans equipment and work areas
Specialisations:
Fellmongery Hand
Flesher Hand
Tannery Hand
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