butcher
Code 7511.1
The butcher (carnicera) breaks down and prepares meats with hygiene, yield and customer service. Use this Job Dictionary profile to butchery or cutting-room trade. It includes the dictionary skills map to build the ad and the assessment.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- food storage
- animal anatomy for food production
- legislation about animal origin products
- cultural practices regarding animal parts sorting
- warm blooded animal organs
Skills and competences
- apply HACCP
- apply GMP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- apply preservation treatments
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- mark differences in colours
- ensure refrigeration of food in the supply chain
- ensure sanitation
- trace meat products
- operate meat processing equipment
- handle knives for meat processing activities
- maintain food specifications
- tend meat packaging machine
- tend meat processing production machines
- prepare meat for sale
- prepare specialised meat products
- process customer orders
- process livestock organs
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- split animal carcasses
- tolerate strong smells
- consider economic criteria in decision making
- cope with blood
- grind meat
Transversal competences
- work in a food processing team
- measure precise food processing operations
- provide first aid
- follow an environmental friendly policy while processing food
- monitor stock level
- work in cold environments
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What to assess for this role
Assess knife skill, food safety and counter service.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a butcher do?
- Cuts, portions and advises cuts per customer or kitchen order.
- Only in retail?
- Also industry, hospitality and processing plants.
- What to measure when hiring?
- A cutting test and hygiene habits.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences