Certificate III in Pork Production - AHC30416
TAFE NSW
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 00591E
This qualification provides an occupational outcome in the pork industry. The pork industry expects that graduates from this qualification will be able to perform a range of tasks associated with a person performing the job role of a piggery attendant. The pork industry expects that graduates from this qualification will be able to perform tasks involving a broad range of skilled applications applied in a wide variety of contexts, which may involve application of some discretion and judgement in selecting equipment, services or contingency measures. Possible job roles relevant to this qualification include:Piggery attendantStockpersonThis qualification is suitable for an Australian Apprenticeship.No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Structure
- 15 units: 2 core
- 13 elective
Subjects
- Carry out feedlot operations
- Implement animal health control programs
- Collect and preserve biological samples
- Plan and construct an electric fence
- Care for weaner pigs
- Coordinate and monitor livestock transport
- Operate tractors
- Slaughter livestock
- Identify and draft livestock
- Operate specialised machinery and equipment
- Implement pest management strategies
- Operate two wheel motorbikes
- Monitor livestock production growing environments
- Coordinate work site activities
- Castrate livestock
- Monitor and maintain outdoor pig production
- Operate side by side utility vehicles
- Collect, store and administer colostrum
- Euthanase livestock
- Maintain and monitor feed stocks
- Treat rectal prolapse in pigs
- Pregnancy test pigs
- Coordinate and monitor production performance
- Contribute to work health and safety processes
- Mate pigs and monitor dry sow performance
- Transport farm produce or bulk materials
- Operate vehicles
- Participate in workplace communications
- Administer medication to livestock
- Implement feeding plans for livestock
- Conduct outdoor pig operations
- Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
- Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock
- Rear newborn and young livestock
- Maintain outdoor pig production environment
- Maintain livestock water supplies
- Process and store semen
- Mix and mill standard stockfeed
- Care for grower and finisher pigs
- Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock
- Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
- Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system
- Artificially inseminate pigs
- Implement feeding plans for intensive production
- Conduct front-end loader operations
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Prepare animals for parturition
- Operate quad bikes
- Operate basic machinery and equipment
