Becoming a Poultry Process Worker in Queensland

About this role

Poultry Process Workers stun and kill, dress, trim, cut into portions, bone, fillet, weigh, grade and package poultry.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Poultry Process Worker include:

• 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.