Meat cutters cut carcasses of animals into large and smaller parts for further processing. They remove bones from pre-processed carcasses of animals either manually or using machines.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Slaughtering animals;
(b) Flaying and trimming carcasses;
(c) Boning, cutting and dressing meat and fish for sale or further processing;
(d) Preparing ingredients and making sausages and similar products using chopping, mixing and shaping machines;
(e) Curing meat, fish and other foods;
(f) Operating smokehouses or ovens to smoke meat, fish and other foodstuffs;
(g) Cooking or in other ways preparing meat, fish and related food items for sale;
(h) Selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing and labelling products, and receiving payment.