Seafood Process Workers

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

What the job involves

• 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