Shearer Career Assessment
Occupation Code
361211List
ROL
Descriptions
Removes wool and hair from sheep, goats, alpacas and other animals.
Job Description
- Selecting and preparing shearing equipment
- Catching and positioning animals for shearing
- Shearing and removing wool and hair from animals
- Identifying contaminated fibre and injured, infected and diseased animals
- Treating skin cuts
- Returning shorn animals to let-out pens for counting and checking
- May service, maintain and repair shearing equipment
- May shear stud animals with hand shears or special combs
Types of visas you can apply for
Other visa types
187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
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 52 weeks of study time in Australia
Work requirements
Applicants are required to have: at least 104 weeks of post-graduation work experience in Australia related to the nominated position
a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate IV with 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 no 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; or a qualification assessed in AQF Certificate III with a highly relevant field of study and at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant work at an appropriate skill level in the past five years;
Assessment Agency
- VETASSES