Overview
Poultry Process Workers stun and kill, dress, trim, cut into portions, bone, fillet, weigh, grade and package poultry.
Day-to-day
- 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.
To become a Poultry Process Worker
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You can work as a Poultry Process Worker without formal qualifications. Some on the job training may be provided. A certificate I or II in meat processing might be helpful.
Skills employers are looking for
