ANZSCO 311399: Primary Products Inspectors Nec

ANZSCO 311399: Primary Products Inspectors Nec

Skill Level: 2 | Assessing Authority: VETASSESS (Group:C) 

Job description

Primary Product Inspectors nec inspect animals, plants and agricultural produce and facilities to ensure compliance with government and industry standards with respect to quality, health and licensing. Primary Product Inspectors nec covers Primary Product Inspectors not elsewhere classified in ANZSCO.

Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:

• » Dairy Quality Assurance Officer
• » Fruit and Vegetable Inspector
• » Grain and Wheat Quality Assessor

Job Duties

Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Inspecting animals, plants and agricultural produce to identify product quality issues, and providing advice to producers
• Auditing and monitoring quality procedures at farms and food handling and processing facilities to ensure compliance with required standards
• Testing samples of produce for quality, size and purity.

Additional tasks may include:

• Ensuring that required standards of hygiene and other food safety elements are observed at storage, processing and packing facilities and in transport vehicles.
• Advising primary producers on economic aspects ofdisease eradication and informing producers and the general public of the health implications of diseases and impurities
• Advising on the identification of pests and diseases and on regulations pertaining to grading, packing and loading of products

Qualification

Skills Assessment of the qualification involves assessment of both the qualification level and content. Qualifications are assessed according to the guidelines published by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.

This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma or higher, and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.

Primary Product Inspectors usually have a background in Agriculture, Food Processing Technology, Horticulture or related fields. These studies focus on the process of farming, animal breeding and grazing, producing unprocessed plant and animal products.

Highly relevant major fields of study include:

• » Agriculture
• » Food processing technology
• » Horticulture
• » Food technology
• » Meat Inspection
• » Seafood processing
• » Animal and plant biochemistry
• » Dairy
• » Broadacre production
• » Consumer food and health
• » Microbiology
• » Biotechnology

Skills Assessment Criteria:

Please note in order to achieve a successful skills assessment outcome, a positive assessment for both qualifications and employment is required.

• Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level with a highly relevant field of study and
• at least one year of post qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;

OR

• Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level with an additional qualification at least AQF Certificate IV in a highly relevant field of study and
• at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;

OR

• Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level without a highly relevant field of study and
• at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;

OR Pre-qualification

• if all of your employment is before your qualification assessed at the AQF diploma level
• three years of highly relevant employment in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years.

Source from: vetassess.com.au

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