Poultry Process Workers

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

What the job involves

• 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