1220.0 - ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2013, Version 1.2  
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UNIT GROUP 8313 MEAT, POULTRY AND SEAFOOD PROCESS WORKERS


    MEAT, POULTRY AND SEAFOOD PROCESS WORKERS slaughter and eviscerate poultry, and process, grade and package meat, poultry, fish and shellfish.

    Indicative Skill Level:
    Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications outlined below.

    In Australia:

      AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)

    In New Zealand:
      NZ Register Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)

    For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.

    Tasks Include:

    • processing offal and tripe
    • moving carcasses to chillers and freezers
    • loading meat products into trucks
    • packing boned and sliced meat into cartons
    • stunning and shackling poultry for killing and processing
    • severing jugular veins of poultry, and removing viscera and residual material from poultry carcasses
    • separating organs and glands, such as sweetbreads, livers, hearts and spleens, from poultry carcasses
    • inspecting and grading poultry, fish and shellfish for size and quality
    • packing fish and counting packs before freezing, and packing frozen fish blocks into cartons
    • operating machines which slice, peel, skin and crumb fish
    • cleaning and sanitising equipment and work areas

    Occupations:
      831311 Meat Process Worker
      831312 Poultry Process Worker
      831313 Seafood Process Worker

831311 MEAT PROCESS WORKER

    Processes carcasses of slaughtered livestock and prepares meat and meat products.

    Skill Level: 5

    Specialisation:

      Offal Separator

831312 POULTRY PROCESS WORKER

    Stuns and kills, dresses, trims, cuts into portions, bones, fillets, weighs, grades and packages poultry.

    Skill Level: 5

    Specialisations:

      Poultry Boner
      Poultry Slaughterer

831313 SEAFOOD PROCESS WORKER

    Scales, cleans, fillets, cuts, shells, grades and packages fish and shellfish.

    Skill Level: 5

    Specialisations:

      Abalone Sheller
      Mussel Opener (NZ)
      Oyster Opener



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