Industrial Meat Cutter

_**Industrial Meat Cutter **_
**Industrial Meat Cutter-NOC # 94141**

**Terms of Employment**: Permanent Full-Time. Includes varied hours and the potential for overtime.

**Language at work**: English

**Wage**: $16.00/hour

**Experience level**: minimum 2 years experience in the meat industry which shows skills matching the duties and responsibilities, qualifications and shows ability to meet the expectations of the company as noted below.

**DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Harvesting**:

- Unload the trailer of the animals coming into the barn/plant for slaughter
- Count and record the numbers of animals
- Stun animal prior to slaughter
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering
- Knowledge and abilities in scalding tank processes
- Scrape/singe the carcass
- Wash carcasses in preparation
- Bunged and hang up carcass
- Splitting of whole carcasses in half for delivery
- Cut, trim and sort the internal organs of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal
- Weigh carcasses to be moved in to the cooler
- Clean and sanitize the kill floor
- Other duties as assigned
- Follow Food Safety Requirements
- Follow Health/Safety Requirements

**Cutting**:

- Debone from warm hanging carcass
- Cut bones from standard cuts of meat, such as chuck, hams, loin, plated, round and shanks to prepare meat for processing using a knife and meat hook. Insert the knife in the meat around the bones to separate meat, fat, tissue and defects
- Knowledge of the different cuts of meat
- Tend assembly line, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass
- Other duties as assigned
- Follow Food Safety Requirements
- Follow Health/Safety Requirements

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Knife handling skills
- Able to move and handle carcasses of various weights on a daily basis
- Able to multi task
- Communication skills-have good spoken/written English
- Able to work independently
- An awareness of hygiene, health and safety issues
- Good physical health

**NOCII Training Certificate in slaughtering and butchering preferred

**EXPECTATIONS**:

- Able to cope with the physical demands of the job
- Good hand-eye coordination
- Knowledge of the different cuts
- Accuracy rate
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Attention to detail
- Able to work safely

**WORKING CONDITIONS**:

- Standing for long periods of time
- Repetitive motion
- Cold and sanitary environment
- Slippery conditions
- Able to wear the required clothing and equipment for the area worked

Work remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $16.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Altona, MB R0G 0B0: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?

**Experience**:

- meat cutting: 2 years (required)

Work Location: One location