Market Street Butcher

Morrisons; North Shields; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket is seeking a skilled Market Street Butcher for their North Shields location. The role involves preparing fresh meat to specifications, providing exceptional customer service, and maintaining attractive displays. Ideal candidates will have butchery skills or experience, and a friendly demeanor. The position offers flexible shifts, substantial holidays, and various employee perks, including discounts. If you're passionate about meat preparation and customer satisfaction, we want to meet you!

Benefits

Flexible shift patterns

Six weeks holiday including bank holidays

15% discount in supermarkets and convenience stores

Career progression opportunities

Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP

Qualifications

• Experience in butchery or knife skills.
• Ability to provide friendly and helpful customer service.
• Capability to maintain health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Prepare fresh meat cuts to company specifications.
• Deliver outstanding service and create positive customer experiences.
• Maintain quality displays of food throughout the trading day.

Skills

Butchery skills

Customer service

Knife skills

Health & Safety standards

Tools

Knives

Mincing machine

Job description

Are you a trained butcher, someone with butchery skills either behind the butcher counter or in a professional kitchen?

Do you have a naturally helpful and friendly style, enjoy meeting new people and going above and beyond for customers?

Do you have a flair for boning, cutting, preparing and flavouring different meat to an impressive standard? If so we’d love to “meat” you

As a Market Street Butcher you’re the face of our fresh butchers counter and as part of your role you will:

• Ensure customer confidence in availability of fresh meat cuts and pre-packaged meat products
• Maintain quality, fresh and attractive displays of food throughout the trading day to promote sales
• Prepare meat primals for sale to company specification, this includes cutting, pricing, weighing, steaking, dicing, mincing, boning, flavouring, and wrapping and using the appropriate equipment e.g. knives, saw, mallet, mincing machine
• Produce meat cuts based on customer requirements, inclusive of our online customers
• Use your skills to produce multiple different cuts of meat from different types of primal
• Deliver outstanding, friendly and helpful service, helping remove barriers and creating moments that matter for our customers, highlighting the traditional skills and fresh products we offer

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Fully flexible shift patterns
• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
• 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores available from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a Friend or Family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Subsidised in store cafe or shop floor ranges
• Competitive pension and life assurance
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Optional Payroll charity donations
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

We want to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed in their role and career with us. It’s one of our main ambitions here at Morrisons, so this could just be the start of your Morrisons journey.

About you

You’ll be the kind of person who:

• Is friendly and supportive, loves meeting new people and going above and beyond for our customers
• Enjoys being active and working in a fast paced varied environment
• Likes to use your own initiative to help support and resolve customer queries
• Has the ability to use a range of equipment whilst maintaining high standards of Health & Safety
• Have butchery or knife skills/experience
• Enjoys working flexibly across other fresh counters to ensure our customers are catered for across Market Street

What happens next?

Click apply today to join our team - it only takes a couple of minutes! We’ll contact you soon, so please check your emails and phone regularly.

Click apply today to join our team - it only takes a couple of minutes! We’ll contact you soon, so please check your emails and phone regularly.

Please note: We will only recruit individuals who are over the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age please visit the following link

At Morrisons, we are committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process. You can find answers to common questions on our FAQs page, including how to request reasonable adjustments. Should you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please let us know and we'd be happy to support you.

About us

We love providing our customers with a great shopping experience they won’t find anywhere else. We are one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, we provide great value for money and good quality fresh food and groceries to over 11 million customers every week. Our focus on freshness makes us stand out as we prepare more fresh food in-store than any other supermarket.

We’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food or serve our customers, we’d love to meet you... We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. What we make, makes us who we are