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Industrial Butcher
Employer
Cargill Meat SolutionsDate Posted
May 08, 2025Languages
English-
Location High River, AB
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Earnings $25.50 to $27.75 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 36 to 48 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 50  Vacancies
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Closing Date Jun 07, 2025
Employer
Cargill Meat Solutions
Languages
English
Education
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Slaughter houses
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
Tasks
- Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
- Slaughter cattle, calves, and sheep as prescribed by religious laws
- 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
Equipment and machinery experience
- Cleavers
- Knives
- Power cutting tools
- Saws
- Stunning devices
Security and safety
- Drug test
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Public transportation is not 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
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Night shift premium
Long term benefits
- Long-term care insurance
- Maternity and parental benefits
- Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Other benefits
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Parking available
- Wellness program
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
Support for youths
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
Support for Veterans
Recruits Veterans and other candidates with military experience through targeted hiring initiatives (for example: job fairs, outreach programs etc.)
Support for Indigenous people
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
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Interest Codes
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in operating equipment to split carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling
- METHODICAL
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Interest in comparing information to remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses, and to skin, clean and trim carcasses
- directive
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Interest in preparing meat for further processing, packaging and marketing
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.