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Job Details

Butcher, Industrial

Employer

Olymel

Date Posted

April 15, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Red Deer, AB
  • Earnings $18.30 hourly
  • Work Hours 37 to 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 7  Vacancies
  • Closing Date May 06, 2026
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
  • Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use
  • 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

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • 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?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?

Experience

1 to less than 7 months

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Day

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Life insurance
  • Pension plan

Long term benefits

Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Other benefits
  • Parking available

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Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)

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Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)


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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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