Slaughterhouse Butcher

Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 50 to 90 hours per month
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Odours
- Cold/refrigerated
**Work setting**:

- Slaughter houses
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
- Willing to relocate
**Tasks**:

- Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
- Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
- Remove bones from meat
**Technical experience**:

- Animal slaughtering operation
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Cleavers
- Knives
- Power cutting tools
- Saws
- Stunning devices
**Specialization or experience**:

- Green economy sector
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
**Security and safety**:

- Driving record check (abstract)
- Drug test
- Criminal record check
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
- Public transportation is not available
**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
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Weight handling**:

- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Team player
**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
**Health benefits**:

- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:

- Piece work
- Stocks/shares
**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- On-site recreation and activities
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Variable or compressed work week
**Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
**Support for youths**:

- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youths
**Support for Veterans**:

- Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)
**Support for Indigenous people**:

- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
**Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
**Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities