Wool Classers

Wool Classers classify wool to industry standards or market requirements.

What the job involves

• Sorts wool into groups according to length, fibre thickness, breed and colour

• Places sorted wool into appropriate bins

• Presses the wool into bales

• Supervises the pressing and branding of wool bales

• Operates wool-weighing, sampling and wool-blending machinery

• Keeps records of the wool bales pressed

• Carries out minor maintenance on wool-weighing, sampling and wool-blending machines

• May be responsible for wool shed management