Meat Processing Operative

You take the carcasses and cuts off the line, trim fat and sinew to the cutting specification and sort the pieces into marked crates. Each crate is weighed, labelled with the batch and the date and moved into the chiller inside the time the plan allows. You steel your knife through the shift, record the room temperature twice a day and clean your station down at the end. The shift is 05:00-13:30 from Monday to Friday.

Completed primary school, a butchery certificate is welcome but not required

Valid food handling health certificate, the medical check is paid

Willing to work at four to seven degrees through the shift

Safe knife handling, which the plant trains and tests

Able to start at 05:00 and to lift crates up to 20 kg

Basic Lithuanian or English for the cutting specification and hygiene rules

Net salary from 1200 up to 1370 EUR per month

Open ended contract with social insurance from the first day

Supplement for work in the cold hall paid monthly

Hot meal in the works canteen on every shift

Twenty working days of paid annual leave

Knives, steel, mesh glove and laundry of the whites paid by the plant

Paid health certificate and the yearly medical check

Operatives who pass the cutting test move from trimming to full carcass breaking, which carries a higher grade, and the plant pays for the butchery course at a Vilnius vocational school.

A tiled cutting hall held at four to seven degrees with a rail system, height adjustable tables and a separate wash down area. A mesh glove, apron, cap, whites and non slip boots are mandatory and are supplied.