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Career Details :: Butchers and Meat Cutters
Description
Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Estimates requirements and requisitions or orders meat supply.
- Receives, inspects, and stores meat upon delivery.
- Places meat on trays in display counter.
- Records quantity of meat received and issued to cooks.
- Shapes, laces, and ties roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
- Cuts, trims, bones, ties, and grinds meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form.
- Wraps and weighs meat for customers and collects money for sales.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Performing for/Working With Public
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
Important Skills
- Product Inspection
- Problem Identification
- Mathematics
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Identification of Key Causes
Frequent Work Context
- Indoors
- Standing
- Hazardous Situations
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Special Uniform
Institutions Offering Related Majors
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