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Poultry Process Worker

831312 · Medium Next-day ready
Career data Close match

Food processing workers operate machines that roast, bake, bottle or dry food and beverage products.

Most common salary $51k – $81k
Upper salary up to $110k
Training 0-1 year
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Description

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

Typical work tasks

  • 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 for size and quality; packing; operating machines which slice, peel, skin and crumb; cleaning and sanitising equipment and work areas.

Typical work environment

  • Works indoors in factory environments.
  • Work areas may be noisy, cold, hot, slippery wet and bloody.
  • Protective clothing and hairnets will be worn as appropriate.
  • Employees may work shifts.

Typical physical and mental demands

  • Medium physical demand level.
  • Stands to operate specialised processing machinery or at wrapping machines and conveyor belts. Frequently walks about the work area to ensure correct operation of machinery and quality of end product.
  • Stretches up or across occasionally to pick up goods, make adjustments to machinery controls and when packing goods. Squatting, crouching or kneeling movements may be needed for inspecting machinery or final products. Bends occasionally over production machinery or to lift packages or containers. Occasional to frequent twisting of the body or neck may be needed.
  • Substantial contact with water may be required as part of processing and cleaning operations in many factories. If so protective clothing is worn.
  • Lifting or carrying is frequent due to the transfer of meat from the floor to the freezers or chillers or other storage areas.
  • Repetitive hand and arm movements will be necessary for many positions where packing, scraping, trimming, filleting or slicing is required.
  • Driving is not required for most positions of this type.
  • Hand-held and operated equipment and machinery is used which may include knives for cutting and trimming, operation of freezing equipment, dehydrating and freeze-drying equipment, working with conveyor belts and with storage and packaging materials, as well as the use of weighing or cleaning equipment.
  • Mental skills necessary include food hygiene knowledge, knife-handling, sorting and weighing skills, plus practical and technical skills.
Entry signal Reviewed

No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.

Entry barrier No formal entry barrier
Licence / registration No licence required
ANZSCO skill level 5
Next-day ready Yes

How this was determined (model-generated): Nil entry requirements; poultry process worker is unskilled entry-level.

Entry Requirements

  • Nil (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).

Further Comments

  • There are opportunities for flexibility of movement but they are limited.