Knifehand
A hands-on role working as part of a team to prepare meat for commercial use.
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- What's it like to be a Knifehand?
- How to become a Knifehand
- Latest Knifehand jobs
- Top skills and experience for Knifehands
- Knifehand role reviews
What's it like to be a Knifehand?
Knifehands cut and prepare meat in packaging and processing facilities. They use knives to trim fat, remove bones and portion meat products before they are packaged and sold. A Knifehand needs an eye for detail and a good level of physical fitness to perform repetitive tasks in a cold food production environment, often at a fast pace.
Tasks and duties
- Filleting, trimming, de-boning, portioning and skinning fresh meat or seafood.
- Working in chillers and other cold or wet environments.
- Loading and unloading meat products.
- Operating meat slicers and cutting machines such as bandsaws.
- Working as part of a team in day or night shifts.
- Using knife skills and knife sharpening skills.
- Following safe food handling, OH&S and hygiene practices.
- Maintaining a clean, safe workspace.
How to become a Knifehand
You don’t need any formal qualifications to become a Knifehand, but completing a butcher’s apprenticeship may improve your career options. Industry experience is preferred. On-the-job training is provided.
- Gain entry-level meat processing experience working in a restaurant, butcher’s shop or meat processing or packaging facility.
- Consider completing a Certificate III in Meat Processing (Retail Butcher) (AMP30815). This usually takes four years and can be completed as part of an apprenticeship.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Knifehand employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Knife Skills
Meat Processing
Butchery
Portion Cutting
Safe Food Handling Practices
Food Safety
Hygienic
Knife Handling
Meat Boning
Ability to Follow Direction
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Latest Knifehand reviews
Feb 2024
Good experience but need more practice in order to not get hurt
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationFarming, Animals & Conservation
The good thingsThe good thing
it can lead you to some job because knife hand is a skill, once you have experience, many other company willing to hire you
The challengesThe bad thing
repetitive work can cause you have triggers fingers and need to get theraphy soon. you need to do excellent sharpening so you dont force your hand and get hurt
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Aug 2023
Knifehand----a handcraft game with challenges
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationFarming, Animals & Conservation
The good thingsI am a trimming knife hand for lamb products. The good thing of the job is that you work as playing a game. Every lamb comes to be different and you figure out how to trim off all the dirts---combine...
The challengesSometimes the lambs are very very dirty, we have to work hard to have the work done, and then we get sore hands.
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