Experienced Industrial Butchers – Finland 🇫🇮

Job Location: Finland 🇫🇮

Employment Type: Permanent / Full-time

Industry: Meat Processing / Food Production

Our client in Finland is seeking experienced Slaughterhouse Workers and Industrial Butchers from Kenya to join their meat-processing operations.

This is an excellent opportunity for skilled meat-industry professionals with a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience working in a large commercial slaughterhouse, abattoir, or industrial meat-processing company. Successful candidates will be supported through the residence permit process from Kenya to Finland.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform professional slaughterhouse and meat-processing operations.

• Handle livestock safely and humanely according to established procedures.

• Carry out slaughtering, bleeding, skinning, evisceration and carcass dressing where required.

• Break down carcasses and perform deboning, trimming, cutting and portioning.

• Use professional knives, saws and other meat-processing equipment safely.

• Maintain consistent quality and production standards.

• Follow strict food hygiene, HACCP, sanitation and workplace safety procedures.

• Clean and sanitize tools, equipment and work areas.

• Work efficiently in a physically demanding and chilled production environment.

• Follow production schedules, quality requirements and instructions from supervisors.

  
  

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a large-scale slaughterhouse, abattoir or industrial meat-processing company.

• Proven hands-on experience in slaughtering, carcass processing, industrial butchery or meat cutting.

• Experience with cattle, sheep and/or goats is highly preferred; experience with other species may also be considered depending on the client’s requirements.

• Strong knife-handling and meat-processing skills.

• Experience in carcass dressing, evisceration, deboning, trimming and meat cutting is an advantage.

• Good knowledge of food hygiene, sanitation and occupational safety.

• Ability to work in a cold/chilled production environment and perform physically demanding tasks.

• Relevant Kenyan TVET/CDACC qualification in meat processing, slaughterhouse operations or butchery is an advantage.

• Finnish language skills are not required.

• Fluent English is required – applicants must be able to communicate and write effectively in English.

  
  

  Candidates with any of the following qualifications are encouraged to apply:

  
  

• Meat Slaughter House Attendant – TVET Level 3

• Meat Butchery Attendant – TVET Level 3

• Meat Abattoir Operator – TVET Level 4

• Meat Butchery Operations – TVET Level 4

• Meat Processing – TVET Level 4

• Relevant certificates in Food Hygiene / Food Safety

• HACCP training/certification

• Occupational Health & Safety training

• Other relevant meat-processing, slaughterhouse or animal-handling qualifications

  
  

  What We Offer

  • Permanent employment in Finland

  • Competitive salary 💶 and benefits.

  • Modern, high-tech manufacturing environment

  • Long-term career development opportunities

  • Support with work permit and relocation from Kenya 🇰🇪