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Meat Trades Worker

Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers slaughter and eviscerate poultry, and process, grade and package meat, poultry, fish and shellfish.

Tasks

  • 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

More Info

A Year 10 Certificate, Certificate I, or a short period of on-the-job training is sometimes needed, but is not necessary to work in this job. Around one in three workers have Years 11 and 10 as their highest level of education.

VET Course Providers:

New South Wales

TAFE NSW

Victoria

TAFE Victoria

South Australia

TAFE SA

Western Australia

TAFE WA

Tasmania

TasTAFE

Queensland

TAFE Queensland

Northern Territory

NT

Charles Darwin University

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra Institute of Technology

For more information on required qualifications, click here.

ANZSCO ID 8313

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