Address
Form of work
SalaryOverview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Noisy
- Odours
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Slaughter houses
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
- Supervision
Responsibilities
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
- Remove feathers and singe and wash poultry to prepare for further processing or packaging
- Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use
- Remove bones from meat
- Train meat cutters
Supervision
- Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Cleavers
- Knives
- Power cutting tools
- Saws
- Stunning devices
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Own vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
