Mark Sixtus

Knife Hand

- Cutting vegetables to spec , weighing tubs and entering weights into computer.

- Cutting and trimming meat products ( chuck tender grissle trim, topside fat trim and slicing, trimming bolar blades , cutting up beef knuckle for mincer and trimming fat of chicken.

- Opening meat products into tubs and miner carts.

-Setting up and running Vemag baller, FM250 and Hopper vacuum filler to make meatballs and patties. Cleaning and sanitizing when finished.

- Cutting, trimming and deboning salmon fillets for the Urschel M( cutting machine )

Rubbish Room

- Run Pulpmaster ( emulsifier ), cardboard compactor, rubbish compactor and liquid waste pump for pumping out sauces and liquids into waste tanks.

Helped out in other areas when needed. Assembly working on lines assembling meals into trays and filling. Cookhouse , traying up product for ovens. Packing finished product into boxes after spiral freezer. Components A cutting and trimming beef products.

Mussel Cook

- Back up openers supervisor

- Setting up half shell line and foaming and sanitizing before shift.

- Receiving mussels bales and organising chiller into different farms and grades.

- loading bales of mussels into hopper and into mussel cooker.

- Setting temperature on cooker to get the best yeild out of the product.

- Making sure of correct flow of mussels onto table and checking temperatures to make sure internal temperature is above 68 degrees C.

- Cleaning and sanitizing the opening table during openers smoko break.

- Cleaning and sanitizing mussel cooker at end of shift. Getting it back up to temperature for dayshift to start.

- Deep cleaning factory on Friday nights. Aciding and wasterblasting opening table.

Dispatch/ Coolstore

- Loading product into 20 foot and 40 foot containers.

- Using slip sheeter forklift to load 40 foot containers.

- Loading and unloading product from racks on forklift in coolstores.

- unloading blast freezers and transferring product to coolstore.

- Stacking boxes on pallets for shop orders.

- Cleaning and sweeping coolstores. Deicing doorways.

Wharf Work

- Unloading Hoki boats on Picton Wharf.

- Unhooking tubs of hoki onto pallets to be loaded onto trucks.

- Sliding tubs off pallets on deck off trucks and strapping the load down.

Contract Mussel Opening

- Using knives to open mussels into half shell . Paid by piece rate.

- Opening mussels on infrared line .

- Backup team leader

Fish Filleter

- Knife work.

- Grade A Filleter.

- Filleting fresh and frozen hoki and other in shore species.

Scallop Opener

- Knife work

- Contract work paid by the kilogram.

Balestore

- Grading bales of mussels into different size grades , taking out black mussels.

- Cleaning and sanitizing mussel bags.

- Loading hopper for half shell line.

Fish Filleter

- Knife Work

- Filleting inshore and deepsea varities of fish for export.

- Filleting some orders for shop sales.

Trio operator ( skinning machine )

- Setting up and maintaining skinning machines to get best recovery from fillets.

- Changing band blades and cleaning guides.

Scallop Opener

- Knife work.

- Contract opening of scallops , paid by kilogram.

Factory Hand

- Running heading Baader , sorting fish into grades and species at a fast pace

- Running 182 and 192 Hoki filleting Baaders

- Hand filleting by catch

- Running Orange Roughy Baaders

- Cleaning and maintaining Baaders on downtime

- Running and maintaining Trio skinning machines , changing band blades and cleaning guides.

- Trimming Hoki on trimming line.

- Grading Hoki fillets into sizes and grades.

- Packing fish into boxes and trays for plate freezers.

- Unloading plate freezers and boxing finished product for freezer hold.

- Working in coolstore after getting back to land and sorting boxes of product into grades and spieces and stacking on pallets.

- Restocking boat of supplies and food for the next 42 day trip.

Fish Filleter

- Knife Work.

- Filleting a variety of inshore and deepsea fish

Plate Freezers

- Unloading plate freezers and stamping Hoki blocks out of moulds.

- Stacking blocks on pallets and transferring by forklift to coolstores.

Tuna Season

- Loading and unloading tuna into brine tanks.

- Loading frozen tuna in 40 foot containers.

Factory Hand

- Loading filleting lines with cases of fish.

- Keeping factory floor clean.

- Loading up cases of fillets for Trio operators to feed trimming lines.

- Cleaning down factory at end of shift and santizing.

Scallop Opener

- Knife Work

- Contract opening of scallops, paid by the kilogram.