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
An Industrial Butcher employee is responsible for assisting with various production needs. All production work will be carried out efficiently while having the highest priority on safety.
Responsibilities
May include one or more of the following tasks:
1. Weigh/ push carcasses, skinner operator, loin puller, hock/front
foot saw, stun/shackle, leaf lard puller, gams and rollers defect
detector
2. Probe operator, Printer scale operator, COV machine operator,
shoulder/picnic saw operator.
3. Primal deboning, trim loins/bellies, whizard knife operators,
break table operators. Stick Hogs, evisceration table, break
heads, hog receiving, bung gun, offal trimmer, knife sharpener.
4. Loin & belly bad saw operator, belly sheet ribbers, back bone
band saw operator
5. Open brisket/pull tongue, splitting saw held rail, gutter, gam,
pre-gut
6. Neck bone removal, loin boing
7. Communicate effectively with Plant Manager, Plant Superintendent,
and Lead Hands to ensure cuts are being performed as required
8. Perform other duties as assigned
9. Follow all Work Safe SK, CFIA, HACCP, and other applicable
regulations
Requirements:
1. Ability to accurately work at production line speed
2. Ability to follow all safe work procedures
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
- Reading text
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
Specific Skills
- Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
- De-bone meat
- Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use
- Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
Work Setting
- Slaughter houses
- Meat processing and packing plants
Type of Equipment
- Stunning devices
- Saws
- Power cutting tools
- Knives