Butcher - Wholesale

**Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)**:

- 2nd Period Apprentice

**Equipment and Machinery Experience**:

- Slicing machine
- Power grinder
- Manual cutting utensil
- Band saw

**Additional Skills**:

- Wrap and package prepared meats
- Weigh meats for sale
- Clean meats to prepare for processing or cutting

**Work Setting**:

- Wholesalers
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment

**Specific Skills**:

- Slice cooked meats
- Remove bones from meat
- Prepare special orders
- Grind meats
- Cut, trim and prepare standard cuts of meat
- Cut carcasses, sides and quarters

**Security and Safety**:

- Basic security clearance

**Work Site Environment**:

- Odours
- Cold/refrigerated

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods

**Work Location Information**:

- Relocation costs not covered by employer

**Personal Suitability**:

- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Team player
- Dependability
- Reliability

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?