363312 — Wool Classer
What this occupation involves
Classifies wool to industry standards or market requirements.
- 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
- inspecting fleece to determine its type according to physical characteristics (staple length and strength, fibre diameter, colour)
- classing wool into lines to meet processors’ requirements and to optimise growers’ returns
- managing wool handling teams
- instructing wool handlers and supervising the picking up, skirting, rolling and pressing of fleeces
- may service, maintain and repair shearing equipment
- may shear stud animals with hand shears or special combs
Visa lists & eligible subclasses
Where this code appears on official skilled-migration lists, and the visa subclasses it currently unlocks. Each subclass code links to its Department of Home Affairs page.
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- Subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional (Provisional)
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Labour market — Australia
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia. New Zealand does not publish per-occupation shortage ratings or projections.
Where this page's data comes from
- ABS: ANZSCO 2022 unit group · abs.gov.au as of
- AU: ROL list · immi.homeaffairs.gov.au as of
- Jobs and Skills Australia: Occupation Shortage List · jobsandskills.gov.au as of
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