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Ocupacions

Slaughterer

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Animal slaughterer Animal slaughterhouse worker Slaughter worker Slaughterer

Slaughterers slaughter animals and process carcasses for further processing and distribution.

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.

Knowledge

  • Food processing
  • Law
  • Sociology and cultural studies
  • Biology

Digital competencies

  • Hunting, trapping and slaughtering animals
  • Maintaining and enforcing physical security
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Marking materials or objects for identification
  • Ensuring compliance with legislation

Digital competencies

  • Accessing and analysing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Taking a proactive approach
  • Maintaining a positive attitude
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

Stationary plant and machine operators

Food and related products machine operators

Food and related products machine operators

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Food and related products machine operators

623

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

5,08%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

7,70% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

56,88%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

17,08%

Part-time contracts

1,16% Turnover index

230

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-4%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Stationary plant and machine operators

66%

34%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Stationary plant and machine operators

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Food and related products machine operators

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Food and related products machine operators

No experience
16%
Less than 1 year
14%
Between 1 and 2 years
23%
Between 2 and 4 years
31%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
11%
Manufacturing
43%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
12%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
10%
Education
8%
Administrative and support service activities
7%
Others
20%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.