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Company Background
Donalds Fine Foods, a family-owned global provider of high-quality specialty meat products, has an exciting opportunity for experienced Meat Cutters/Butchers, based out of our Moose Jaw, SK location.
Brief Job Description:
A Semi-Skilled Meat Cutter is responsible for ensuring their cuts of meat are in accordance with production and customer needs. All production work will be carried out efficiently while having the highest priority on safety.
Responsibilities:
Perform 3 of the following cuts at production line speed
1. Box Scale, Band saw, and cryovac operators
2. Jowl removal/ dunseth blade, remove the hind leg
3. bone picnics, bone buckeyes, stage boning, whizard knife
4. jowl trim, back fat trim, and pull side ribs
5. Prober operators, stun hogs, shave hogs
6. shave hogs, break heads, and stick wound removal
7. Offal harvest and heart-valve harvest
8. Communicate effectively with Plant Manager, Plant Superintendent, and Lead Hands to ensure cuts are being performed as required
9. Perform other duties as assigned
10. Follow all Work Safe SK, CFIA, HACCP and other applicable regulations
Requirements:
1. Ability to accurately work at production line speed
2. 1-2 years experience as a meat cutter
3. Ability to communicate in English
4. Consistent commitment to working safely
5. Demonstrated ability to react to situations with a strong sense of urgency using a creative and logical approach to resolution
6. Ability to work in a team based environment
Essential Skills
- Working with others
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
Specific Skills
- Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
Work Setting
- Meat processing and packing plants