Quarantine Officer Career Assessment
Occupation Code
311313List
ROL
Descriptions
Inspects incoming animals, plants, and animal and plant products to ensure compliance with laws and regulations to prevent the spread of exotic pests and diseases.
Aliases
Biosecurity Officer (Ministry for Primary Industry) (NZ) Skill Assessment
Quarantine Inspector Skill Assessment
Job Description
- 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
- Ensuring that required standards of hygiene are observed at storage, processing and packing facilities and in transport vehicles
- Advising primary producers on economic aspects of disease 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
- Examining imported plants and animals, and products, such as timber, seeds and dried fruits, and making quarantine arrangements
- Patrolling and investigating waterways for unlawful fishing activities and the removal of protected marine life
- Educating, advising and providing information on a wide range of topics relating to fish and their protection
- May initiate or assist in legal action to enforce regulations
Types of visas you can apply for
Other visa types
494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
Skill Assessment
Skills Assessment Requirements
Applicants are required to have academic qualifications related to the nominated position PhD / Bachelor (including Honours Bachelor and Master) / Diploma completed in Australia / Australian Level 3 Certificate - AQFⅢ/Ⅳ compeleted in Australia 104 weeks of study time in Australia
Work requirements
Applicants are required to have: at least 52 weeks of post-graduation work experience in Australia related to the nominated position
A qualification assessed at least AQF Diploma level, with an additional qualification of at least AQF Certificate IV in a highly relevant field of study, and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years; or A qualification assessed at least AQF Diploma level but without a highly relevant field of study, and at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years
Assessment Agency
- VETASSES