Quarantine Officer Skill Assessment
Occupation Code
311313List
ROL
Descriptions
Inspects incoming animals, plants, and animal and plant products to ensure compliance with laws and regulations to prevent the spread of exotic pests and diseases.
Aliases
Biosecurity Officer (Ministry for Primary Industry) (NZ) Career Assessment
Quarantine Inspector Career Assessment
Job Description
- Inspecting animals, plants and agricultural produce to identify product quality issues, and providing advice to producers
- Auditing and monitoring quality procedures at farms and food handling and processing facilities to ensure compliance with required standards
- Testing samples of produce for quality, size and purity
- Ensuring that required standards of hygiene are observed at storage, processing and packing facilities and in transport vehicles
- Advising primary producers on economic aspects of disease eradication and informing producers and the general public of the health implications of diseases and impurities
- Advising on the identification of pests and diseases and on regulations pertaining to grading, packing and loading of products
- Examining imported plants and animals, and products, such as timber, seeds and dried fruits, and making quarantine arrangements
- Patrolling and investigating waterways for unlawful fishing activities and the removal of protected marine life
- Educating, advising and providing information on a wide range of topics relating to fish and their protection
- May initiate or assist in legal action to enforce regulations
Types of visas you can apply for
Other visa types
494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
Skill Assessment
VETASSES group C
- Select a nominated occupation for assessment based on the purpose of your visa application;
- Through the VETASSESS online application system, fill in the form, deduct the fee, and upload the documents;
- Track the progress of your application and pay attention to its status;
- If additional documents are required, VETASSESS will send an email notification;
- After completing the skills assessment application, you can view the results and download the result letter in the VETASSESS online application system. A copy of the result letter will generally not be mailed to you unless you request it in the skills assessment application and pay the postage.
Work requirements
- 1. If the major is highly relevant, at least one year of relevant work experience after graduation in the past five years;
- 2. If the major of the specialist degree is not highly relevant to the nominated occupation, you need to have an Australian Level 4 certificate that is highly relevant to the nominated occupation, and at least one year of relevant work experience after graduation in the past five years;
- 3. If the major is not highly relevant, at least two years of relevant work experience after graduation in the past five years is required;
- 4. If the applicant’s relevant work experience is before obtaining a college degree, a total of 3 years of relevant work experience is required, of which 1 year must be within the past 5 years.
Academic requirements
- Highly relevant AQF qualifications include:
- - AQF Diploma
- - AQF Advanced Diploma
- - AQF Associate Degree or
- - AQF Graduate Diploma
- AQF diploma and above, including qualifications assessed at AQF Bachelor, Masters and PhD levels.
- VETASSES
