As a qualified butcher, your career path could lead you to a friendly neighbourhood shop, a bustling catering business or a huge supermarket chain.

The Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) is a four-year apprenticeship program featuring block release and on-the-job training designed to provide you with well developed skills which you will need to work in a retail meat environment.

These skills include: processing beef, lamb, pork, veal and chicken into cuts ready for consumption, manufacturing value-added products andsmallgoods, identification of species and meat products, trimming for processing, meat cuts, basic cookery, curing and corn products, specialised cuts, sharpening knives, storing meat products, mincing, cleaning, using a bandsaw, vacuum packing, weighing and packaging, labelling, sausages, yield calculations, preparation, rolling, sewing and netting meat, boning and filleting poultry, smoked products and MSA Training.

You will also gain relevant knowledge in:

• communication
• hygiene and sanitation
• customer service
• sales transactions
• managing stock
• ordering and merchandising
• pricing and nutritional advice on meat.

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