Skills Poultry Slaughterer - Food And Beverage Processing in Canada

Find out what skills you typically need to work as a poultry slaughterer - food and beverage processing in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers (NOC 94141).

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 feathers and singe and wash poultry to prepare for further processing or packaging
  • Cut meat and poultry into specific cuts for institutional, commercial or other wholesale use
  • Remove bones from meat

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Handling Goods and Materials Help - Handling Goods and Materials
  • Loading and Unloading
  • Sorting

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Loading and Unloading
Moving goods or materials, by hand or with the aid of equipment.
Sorting
Handling, sorting, weighing, packaging, separating or arranging materials, according to established patterns or procedures.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
Operating and monitoring various types of mechanically-controlled or computer-controlled industrial machinery, equipment or systems.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
Providing cleaning and janitorial services.

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Inspecting and Testing

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Inspecting and Testing
Examining and investigating problems, sites or objects to ensure compliance with safety standards, laws or regulations.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production Help - Manufacturing and Production
  • Food Production and Agriculture
  • Processing and Production

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Food Production and Agriculture
Knowledge of techniques and equipment for raising, planting, growing, harvesting and storage of animal and plant food products and the techniques, materials and equipment for their preparation and preservation.
Processing and Production
Knowledge of production methods, inputs, outputs, work flow and industrial processes including safety, quality control and cost estimation.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Engineering and Technology Help - Engineering and Technology
  • Mechanics and Machinery

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Mechanics and Machinery
Knowledge of machines, equipment and tools including their design, uses, repair and maintenance.

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

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