Prepared meat operators process meat either by hand or using meat machines such as meat grinding, crushing or mixing machines. They perform preservation processes such as pasteurising, salting, drying, freeze-drying, fermenting and smoking. prepared meat operators strive to keep meat free from germs and other health risks for a longer period than fresh meat.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Operating and monitoring machinery used to restrain, stun, slaughter animals and to trim carcasses into standard meat and fish cuts;
(b) Setting, operating and attending machinery and ovens to mix, bake and otherwise prepare bread and flour confectionery products;
(c) Operating machinery to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grains and fruits to produce beer, wines, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products;
(d) Attending equipment to make jam, toffee, cheese, processed cheese, margarine, syrup, ice, pasta, ice-cream, sausages, chocolate, maize starch, edible fats and dextrin;
(e) Operating equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurize, smoke, sterilize, freeze, evaporate and concentrate foodstuffs and liquids used in food processing;
(f) Mixing, pulping, grinding, blending and separating foodstuffs and liquids with churning, pressing, sieving, grinding and filtering equipment;
(g) Processing tobacco leaves by machine to make cigarettes, cigars, pipe and other tobacco products.