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Ocupacions

Meat preparations operator

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

Other denominations:
Abbatoir worker Meat preparations operator Meat processing worker Meat worker Meatworker

Meat preparations operators prepare fresh meat with ingredients such as spices, herbs or additives in order to make ready-for-sale meat preparations.

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
  • Sociology and cultural studies
  • Law
  • Occupational health and safety

Digital competencies

  • Operating food processing machinery
  • Working in teams
  • Marking materials or objects for identification
  • Maintaining and enforcing physical security
  • Fabricating food and related products

Digital competencies

  • Accessing and analysing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Following ethical code of conduct
  • Maintaining a positive attitude
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers

Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers

Animal producers

Poultry producers

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

Poultry producers

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.

Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers

84%

16%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers

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

Animal producers

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?

Poultry producers

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%

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.