Head Butcher

**Equipment and Machinery Experience**:

- Slicing machine
- Sausage machine
- Salami mixer and cooker
- Power grinder
- Manual cutting utensil
- Band saw
**Additional Skills**:

- Wrap and package prepared meats
- Weigh meats for sale
- Train meat cutters
- Sell meats to customers
- Price meat products
- Clean meats to prepare for processing or cutting
- Supervise other butchers, meat cutters and fishmongers
**Work Setting**:

- Wholesalers
- Butcher shop
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
**Specific Skills**:

- Slice cooked meats
- Shape, lace and tie roasts, other meats, poultry and seafood
- Remove bones from meat
- Prepare special displays of meats, poultry and fish products
- Prepare special orders
- Make special sausages
- Grind meats
- Cut poultry into parts
- Cut, trim and prepare standard cuts of meat
- Cut carcasses, sides and quarters
**Security and Safety**:

- Criminal record check
**Work Site Environment**:

- Odours
- Cold/refrigerated
**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
**Work Location Information**:

- Willing to relocate
**Personal Suitability**:

- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Accurate
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Organized