343331 Shearer

This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 3: AQF Certificate III including at least two years of on-the-job training, AQF Certificate IV, or at least three years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 3: NZQF Level 4 qualification, or at least three years of relevant experience

• Selects and prepares shearing equipment
• Catches and positions animals for shearing
• Shears and removes wool and hair from animals
• Identifies contaminated fibre and injured, infected, and diseased animals
• Treats skin cuts on shorn animals
• Returns shorn animals to let-out pens for counting and checking
• May service, maintain, and repair shearing equipment
• May shear stud animals with hand shears or special combs