Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting
- Butcher shop
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
- Wholesalers
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clean meats to prepare for processing or cutting
- Cut carcasses, sides and quarters
- Cut, trim and prepare standard cuts of meat
- Wrap and package prepared meats
- Remove bones from meat
- Weigh meats for sale
- Cut poultry into parts
- Price meat products
- Sell meats to customers
- Supervise other butchers, meat cutters and fishmongers
- Grind meats
- Train meat cutters
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Band saw
- Power grinder
- Slicing machine
Additional information
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Team player