Retail Butchers
Job description
These individuals process, cut, and prepare various products from pieces of meat and poultry. They mainly work in grocery stores and butcher shops.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Greet customers, inform, and advise them on products and their preparation.
- Sell products to clients.
- Apply the hygiene, sanitation, health, and safety standards in force.
- Pack, weigh, and label pieces for display.
- Handle, clean, and maintain butchering tools and equipment.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in boucherie de détail
Placement rate: 82.9%
13% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Active listening
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Time management
- Service oriented
- Critical thought
- Social perception
Abilities
- Manual dexterity
- Near vision
- Hand-arm stability
- Classification
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Control accuracy
- Awareness of issues
- Selective attention
- Speech clarity
- Digital dexterity
- Core strength
- Colour perception and distinction
- Speech recognition
Knowledge and attributes
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Knowledge of plant and animal production
- Spoken bilingualism (French and English)
Interests
- Work in sales or client service
- Work manually
- Assist and advise
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Butchers - retail and wholesale (CNP 63201)
Skill type
Sales and service
Last update: January 29, 2026