Description
Cutting, wrapping and displaying meat for sale. Ordering product for department. Responsible for department cleanliness being maintained. Serving customers and taking specialty orders. Being able to communicate and give direction to fellow employees that work under Meat Cutter. Merchandising fresh and smoked meat display cases and maintaining freshness.
Skills and Abilities
Work Setting
- Grocery store
Essential Skills
- Finding information
- Job task planning and organizing
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Working with others
- Oral communication
- Numeracy
Additional Skills
- Clean meats to prepare for processing or cutting
- Price meat products
- Sell meats to customers
- Weigh meats for sale
- Wrap and package prepared meats
Specific Skills
- Cut, trim and prepare standard cuts of meat
- Cut poultry into parts
- Grind meats
- Make special sausages
- Prepare special orders
- Prepare special displays of meats, poultry and fish products
- Remove bones from meat
- Shape, lace and tie roasts, other meats, poultry and seafood
- Slice cooked meats
Type of Equipment
- Band saw
- Manual cutting utensil
- Sausage machine
- Slicing machine
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Meat Cutter Trade Certification
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