2.0Low Risk
Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers
Factory Process Workers · Food Process Workers
AI exposure measures how much this occupation's tasks may change. It is not the probability that the job will disappear.
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Median Weekly Pay
$1,244
Full-time workers
Employment
14,600
Total workers
10yr Growth
-2.0%
Projected to 2035
Shortage Status
N/A
Key Insight
Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers has low AI exposure, making it one of the more resilient occupations in the Australian workforce.
JSA Official AI Exposure
Automation13.0%
Augmentation35.0%
Key Tasks
- •Processing offal and tripe
- •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, fish and shellfish for size and quality
- •Packing fish and counting packs before freezing, and packing frozen fish blocks into cartons
- •Operating machines which slice, peel, skin and crumb fish
- •Cleaning and sanitising equipment and work areas
Employment Projections to 2035
Median Age
39
Female Share
31.0%
Part-Time Share
14.0%
Skill Level
5 / 5
Lowest