Industrial butcher

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years

Work site environment

  • Odours
  • Hot
  • Cold/refrigerated

Work setting

  • Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment

Tasks

  • Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
  • Slaughter cattle, calves, and sheep as prescribed by religious laws
  • Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
  • Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use
  • Remove bones from meat

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Knives
  • Power cutting tools
  • Saws
  • Stunning devices

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Standing for extended periods

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Team player
  • Initiative
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Reliability
  • Organized
  • Quick learner

Employment terms options

  • Early morning

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Overtime available

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Pension plan
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