Group
Unit Group

8313 Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers

Latest release
ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations
Reference period
2022

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:

  • NZQF 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
Back to top of the page