Retail Butcher
job description
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience:
Experience an asset
**Asset languages**:
- Persian
**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
- Prepare special orders
- Prepare special displays of meats, poultry and fish products
- Shape, lace and tie roasts, other meats, poultry and seafood
**Equipment and machinery experience**:
- Band saw
- Manual cutting utensil
- Power grinder
**Security and safety**:
- Criminal record check
**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
- Work Term:
Temporary
- Work Language:
English
- Hours:
30 to 44 hours per week