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Job Details

Butcher, Industrial

Employer

Olymel

Date Posted

October 10, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Red Deer, AB
  • Earnings $17.80 hourly
  • Work Hours 74 hours bi-weekly
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 20  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 07, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Olymel

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Cold/refrigerated

Work setting

  • Slaughter houses
  • Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment

Tasks

  • Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
  • Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
  • Remove bones from meat
  • Remove filled containers from conveyors
  • Feed and unload processing machines
  • Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
  • Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties
  • Food safety/handling skills
  • Transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials

Transportation/travel information

Public transportation is available

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Team player
  • Reliability
  • Punctuality

Screening questions

Are you authorized to work in Canada?

Experience

Experience an asset

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

As per collective agreement

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Other benefits
  • Parking available

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Butcher, Industrial is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Industrial Butchers
OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating equipment to split carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling

METHODICAL

Interest in comparing information to remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses, and to skin, clean and trim carcasses

directive

Interest in preparing meat for further processing, packaging and marketing

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