Australia’s meat processing industry relies on a range of specialised roles to support food supply, safety and quality throughout the production process.
Certificate III qualifications provide a pathway into these roles, including through apprenticeships and traineeships, equipping learners with the practical skills needed to work across different parts of the industry.
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Project scope and purpose
This project will review and revise training package products related to the Certificate III meat processing qualifications to better reflect industry needs and training package requirements. Updates will be based on stakeholder consultation and carried out in accordance with the Training Package Organising Framework (TPOF) 2025 and relevant policy requirements.
In finding solutions to identified challenges, training products may be removed, merged, and/or deleted, and new ones developed to support current technologies or processes.
This project is part of the third stage of a broader initiative to update the entire AMP Australian Meat Processing Training Package. The Retail Butchery and Smallgoods Project is also underway, and draft documents for both projects will become available for feedback at the same time.
Training products for review include:
six qualifications
AMP30116 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Boning Room)
AMP30216 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Food Services)
AMP30421 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Rendering)
AMP30516 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Slaughtering)
AMP31116 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Livestock Handling)
AMP31216 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Packing Operations)
Five recently reviewed qualifications will require updates to reflect revisions to units as part of this project:
AMP30622 Certificate III in Meat Processing
AMP30322 Certificate III in Meat Safety Inspection
AMP20125 Certificate II in Meat Processing
four skill sets
AMPSS00014 Effective Stunning (Captive Bolt) Skill Set
AMPSS00015 Effective Stunning (Electrical Stunning) Skill Set
seventy-five units
AMPA2177 Handle working dogs in stock yards
AMPA3001 Stick and bleed animal
AMPA3004 Monitor the effective operations of electrical stimulation
AMPA3010 Overview legging operation
AMPA3012 Make first leg opening cuts
AMPA3013 Make second leg opening cuts
AMPA3014 Perform legging on small stock
AMPA3015 Perform animal slaughter in accordance with Halal certification requirements
AMPA3024 Perform flanking cuts
AMPA3029 Scald and dehair carcase
AMPA3034 Eviscerate animal carcase
AMPA3040 Operate brisket cutter or saw
AMPA3045 Drop sock and pull shoulder pelt
AMPA3046 Undertake retain rail operations
AMPA3048 Bone small stock carcase – leg
AMPA3049 Slice and trim leg – small stock
AMPA3050 Bone large stock carcase – forequarter
AMPA3051 Bone large stock carcase – hindquarter
AMPA3052 Slice and trim large stock forequarter
AMPA3053 Slice and trim large stock hindquarter
AMPA3054 Break carcase using a bandsaw
AMPA3062 Operate trunk boning machine
AMPA3063 Bone small stock carcase – shoulder
AMPA3064 Bone small stock carcase – middle
AMPA3065 Slice small stock carcase – shoulder
AMPA3066 Slice small stock carcase – middle
AMPA3068 Prepare and despatch meat products
AMPA3071 Implement food safety program
AMPA3086 Monitor boiler operations
AMPA3117 Oversee product loadout
AMPA3133 Manage NLIS data for pigs in lairage
AMPA3134 Overview of the NLIS Pork
AMPA3136 Monitor welfare of stock during out-of-hours receival
AMPA3137 Operate biogas facilities
AMPA3138 Identify secondary sexual characteristics – beef
AMPG303 Receive and inspect wild game carcases from the field
AMPG304 Receive and inspect wild game carcases at a processing plant
AMPG305 Store wild game carcases
AMPG307 Inspect wild game field depot
AMPP301 Operate a poultry carcase delivery system
AMPP302 Debone and fillet poultry product (manually)
AMPREN301 Operate and monitor a batch rendering process
AMPREN302 Operate and monitor a continuous dry rendering process
AMPREN303 Operate and monitor a low temperature wet rendering process
AMPREN304 Operate a tallow refining process
AMPREN305 Operate a blood coagulation and drying process
AMPREN306 Render edible products
AMPSMA201 Slice product using simple machinery
AMPX309 Identify and repair equipment faults
AMPX316 Monitor product to be sent to rendering
AMPX317 Monitor product flow in an automated process
AMPX410 Facilitate achievement of enterprise environmental policies and goals
AMPX418 Lead communication in the workplace
AMPX431 Oversee meat processing establishment’s Halal compliance
Companion Volume and Implementation Guides.
AMP release 8.1 Companion Volume V8.1 February 2025 part 1 of 2 (Implementation Guide)
AMP release 8.1 Companion Volume V8.1 February 2025 part 2 of 2 (Implementation Guide)
Consultation approach
Stakeholder input is is central to this project. Opportunities to provide targeted feedback will occur:
- when the draft materials are made available for feedback as part of Broad Consultation
- as part of Consensus Gathering, when the final drafts will be made available for review.
Skills Insight and MINTRAC have created a list of key stakeholder organisations to approach for involvement in this project. If you are aware of an organisation that should be included, please contact the project team at [email protected]
A Technical Committee will be assembled to support the development of the updated training package products. The Technical Committee will be guided by a Consultation Strategy and Technical Committee (TC) Terms of Reference which will be made available on this webpage once finalised.
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Timeline
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During the development stage, key stakeholders, including subject matter experts, are engaged and consulted to gather further information and begin investigating potential solutions.
This stage has not yet commenced.
At the broad consultation stage, we present and discuss potential solutions, collecting feedback from a wide range of stakeholder across the country. It follows consultation with various stakeholders that has already taken place throughout the project.
This stage has not yet commenced.
At the Consensus Gathering stage, we check our work with stakeholders to confirm that solutions are in line with expectations.
This stage has not yet commenced.
At the finalisation stage, final checks are conducted and the outcomes of the project are submitted to the Department for consideration. Following this, outcomes are published or enacted.
Project background
The AMP Training Package underwent a series of small changes between 2015 – 2020 to meet specific industry needs. While carrying out this work, it became apparent that the entire training package required review. A full review was proposed and is now being completed in stages to minimise disruption to current apprenticeships and ongoing training and workforce development:
