butcher - delicatessen
Education:
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Work site environment:
Odours. Cold/refrigerated.
Work setting:
- Butcher shop.
- Supermarket and meat department.
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment.
- Supermarket/grocery store.
- Wholesalers.
Tasks:
- Clean meats to prepare for processing or cutting.
- Cut carcasses, sides and quarters.
- Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.
- 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.
- Make special sausages.
- Slice cooked meats.
- Prepare special displays of meats, poultry and fish products.
- Shape, lace and tie roasts, other meats, poultry and seafood.
- Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use.
Supervision:
Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers.
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Band saw.
- Manual cutting utensil.
- Power grinder.
- Salami mixer and cooker.
- Sausage machine.
- Slicing machine.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Attention to detail.
- Physically demanding.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
Personal suitability:
- Accurate.
- Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Excellent written communication.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
Experience:
1 to less than 7 months.
Employment terms options:
- Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
Other benefits:
- Free parking available.
- Learning/training paid by employer.
- Parking available.
Support for newcomers and refugees:
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.).
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) .
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition.
- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees .
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees .
- Does not require Canadian work experience.