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JOB TITLES STARTING WITH P & Q

These lists are presented mainly to stimulate your thinking further… and to demonstrate there are a much wider variety of different jobs possible! Usually a LOT more than people usually think 🙂


  • Paediatric Dentists
  • Paediatricians
  • Painter and Decorator
  • Painters
  • Palaeontologists
  • Panel Beater
  • Paper and Pulp Operator
  • Paper Machine Operators
  • Paralegal Worker
  • Paramedics/Advanced Life Support Officers
  • Parcel Post Officers
  • Park Ranger
  • Parking Inspector
  • Parking Patrol Officer
  • Pastrycook
  • Patent Examiner
  • Pathologists
  • Pathology Technical Officer
  • Patient Service Assistant
  • Pattern Makers
  • Payroll Clerks
  • Performing Musicians/Instrumentalists
  • Periodontists
  • Personal Care Assistant
  • Personal Care Worker
  • Personal Computer (PC) User Support
  • Personal Development & Health and Physical Education Teacher
  • Personal Trainer
  • Personnel Clerk
  • Personnel Officer
  • Pest and Weed Controller
  • Pet Shop Attendants
  • Petrochemical Engineers
  • Petroleum Engineer
  • Petroleum Geologists
  • Pharmaceutical Representatives
  • Pharmacist
  • Pharmacologist
  • Pharmacy Sales Assistants
  • Photographer
  • Photographic Processor
  • Physical Fitness Instructor
  • Physical Geographers
  • Physical Oceanographers
  • Physicians
  • Physicist
  • Physiologists
  • Physiotherapist
  • Physiotherapy Aides
  • Piano Technician
  • Piano Tuner
  • Picture Framer
  • Piggery Workers
  • Pilot
  • Pipeline Engineers
  • Plant Ecologists
  • Plant Mechanics (Mobile)
  • Plant Operator
  • Plant Pathologists
  • Plant Pathologists
  • Plant Physiologists
  • Plant Scientists
  • Plant Taxonomists
  • Plasterer – Fibrous
  • Plasterer – Solid
  • Plastic Processing Machine Operator
  • Plastics Assemblers
  • Plastics Processor
  • Platform Coordinator
  • Plumber
  • Podiatrist
  • Police Officer – Australian Federal Police
  • Police Officer – State
  • Political Scientist

  • Pool Attendant
  • Porter
  • Porters
  • Postal Delivery Officers
  • Postal Employee
  • Postal Officer
  • Postal Services Officers
  • Postal Sorting Officers
  • Postal Transport Officers
  • Potters/Ceramicists
  • Poultry Farm Hands
  • Poultry Processor
  • Powder Coater
  • Power Generation Plant Operator
  • Pre-primary School Teacher
  • Precision Instrument Maker and Repairer
  • Precision Instrumentation Tradesperson
  • Preschool Teacher
  • Pressure Welders
  • Primary Metallurgical Technicians
  • Primary Products Inspector
  • Primary School Teacher
  • Primary Teacher
  • Primary/Extractive Metallurgists
  • Printing Hand
  • Printing Machinist
  • Printmakers
  • Private Art Teachers
  • Private Detective
  • Private Investigator
  • Private Marine Surveyors
  • Private Music Teachers
  • Probation Officer/Parole Officer
  • Process Control Engineers
  • Process Technician
  • Product Designer
  • Product Managers
  • Production Engineering Associate
  • Production Horticulturists
  • Professional Officers
  • Programmer (Information Technology)
  • Project Builder
  • Project Engineers
  • Project Managers (IT)
  • Projectionist
  • Proofreader
  • Property Conveyancer
  • Prosthetic/Orthotic Technician
  • Prosthetist/Orthotist
  • Prosthodontists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologist
  • Public Affairs Officer
  • Public Relations Officer
  • Publisher
  • Pulp Mill Operators
  • Purchasing Officer




  • Quality Assurance Inspector
  • Quality Assurance Officer
  • Quality Control Officer
  • Quality Coordinator
  • Quality Managers (IT)
  • Quality Technician
  • Quantity Surveyor/Construction Economist
  • Quarry and Open-cut Mining Shotfirers


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Detailed Job Descriptions

Quite a few of these jobs now have detailed job descriptions available for them here @ Careers OnLine. Please visit this Alphabetical List @ COL’s Job Guide for the specific links. 🙂

We’ll get onto adding the links into the above pages in a while… but it’s a big job, and we’ve still got a lot of changes to go through…


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