Meat Processing

This industry consists of Meat Industry Award which cover several types of businesses such as:

Types of Businesses

  • Meat Manufacturing Establishments: These are businesses that are predominantly involved in the manufacturing or processing of fresh meat, meat products, small goods or any other edible meat products, especially if meat forms a substantial ingredient.

  • Meat Processing Establishments: This would include retail and wholesale sales that predominantly involve killing, dressing, boning, slicing, preparation and/or packing of fresh meat. This also includes any related ancillary activities such as the processing of skins or hides.

  • Meat Retail Establishments: This involves businesses that are involved in the sale and preparation of meat products such as fresh meat, ham, small goods and other processed meats such as butchers.

Below is a list of business types that are covered within the Meat Industry Award:

  • Abbatoirs

  • Meat Wholesalers

  • Meat Retailers such as butchers

  • Smallgoods Manufacturing

  • Feedlots

  • Game Meat Processing

  • Knackeries

Job Type: Labourers.

Skill Level: Entry Level.

ANZSCO Occupation Group: 831311

Pathways: Vocational Education and Training (VET), Informal or on-the-job.

Physical Demand: Medium-Heavy

Industry Summary

Source: https://labourmarketinsights.gov.au

QUEENSLAND

30.6%

All Occupations: 20.0%

EMPLOYMENT ACROSS THE NATION

VICTORIA

27.1 %

All Occupations: 25.6%

Worker Level Minium Weekly Hours Job Duties
1 38 No experience, undergoing on-the-job training for an initial period of at least 3 months
2 38 Linker, table hand; Slaughterer’s assistant; Curing section assistant, etc..
3 38 Employee indirectly connected with the slaughter floor—tasks such as cleaning tripe by machine/hand;Separating and/or handling offal at the eviscerating table; Removing head meat; Bagging lambs; Labourers associated with boning and slicing activities, etc..
4 38 Silent-cutter operator; Mixing machine operator; Smallgoods seller from a vehicle; Cutter up,guillotine operator,derinding machine operator; Packer and/or scaler, etc..
5 38 Slaughterer (calves and beef) Class 2, Slicer; Sawyer; Bench power saw operator; Driver of motor vehicle exceeding 6 tonne carrying capacity; use of licensed product handling equipment; Tractor driver; Auto-truck or tow motor drivers, etc..
6 38 Slaughterer (calves and beef) Class 1, Boner; Carcase grader; Skin classer; Clerical duties, etc..
7 38 Trade qualified slaughterer; General butcher; Smallgoods maker.
8 38 General butcher in charge of a meat retail establishment.

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