ANZSCO 83132.0Low RiskNot Assessed

Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers

Factory Process Workers · Food Process Workers

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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