Becoming a Seafood Process Worker in Queensland

About this role

Seafood Process Workers scale, clean, fillet, cut, shell, grade and package fish and shellfish.

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

Typical tasks for a Seafood Process Worker include:

• sorts, inspects and grades seafood products for size and quality
• prepares seafood by skinning, trimming, washing, gilling, gutting, filleting, shucking, descaling, cooking, smoking, preserving and/or canning fish, shellfish and molluscs
• operates machines which slice, peel, skin and crumb seafood
• counts and packs prepared seafood for freezing
• packs frozen seafood blocks into cartons after freezing, in order to prepare stock for dispatch
• loads seafood products into trucks
• cleans and sanitises equipment and work areas.