Zachary Quilliam

Follow pick sheets to pick correct stock and dispatch onto pallets with the use of RF Scanners and ride on pallet truck in -18 freezer. Use of high reach forklift for replenishing. Use of side loader to load trucks In timely manner for delivery each morning.

This job involves lifting 25kg bags of ingredients into hoppers for batch mixing, Data entry, driving counterbalance and High Reach forklift to put away finished product and gather ingredients from warehouse using RV scanner. Operating box making machines and cardboard compactors.

• Slicer and sometimes Boner at Teys’
• Slicing involves cutting primal parts of beef to specification of how the customer would like it
• The beef carcass would come down the chain in half and one of the boners would cut the meat off the bone and drop it down to the slicer
• This is a very fast and hard job as it takes skills and a level of fitness to do this job properly and to keep up with chain speed.

• I worked in the oyster farm in Smithton, Tasmania for 3 yrs
• The job involved driving the oyster punts into the water and then the driving the punts down the river to the estuaries where the oyster farms were located at low tide
• Grated oysters would be unloaded on to the exposed racks in the water
• After that, oysters that needed to be graded or sold would be picked up and taken back to the factory shed
• The smaller juvenile oysters would be put into small plastic mesh bags and stapled on to wooden frames using air-powered staple guns
• Then load the racks on to punts using forklifts.

• I worked on the tree farms all over the State of Tasmania
• This was a very hard job, as you needed a good level of fitness to do the tasks such as plant that involved walking all day over rocky ground and up hills
• We did pruning which was hard, as well, as you had to climb a 3-metre-ladder up the Gum Trees to prune the branches off on the way up
• All this work paid by piece rate per tree so I had to keep a fast pace to reach my quota for the day
• We would fertilize the trees too by carrying 25 kg fertilizer bags on our backs from tree to tree
• The trees were grown for veneer
• Alongside the tree farming duties were weed spraying and back burning the forest
• We would wear fire-fighting gear and go lighting fires with drip torches at selected spots by Forestry Tasmania
• We were also involved in fight bush fires.

• Saw, Load Out, Learner, I worked on cutting leg bones with a band saw into small pieces for packing
• I worked in the freezers in load out putting boxes of meat into freezers and unloading them later
• I started to learn how to slice beef in the Boning Room.