Trainee Butcher | Pontefract

DOVECOTE PARK LTD; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run butcher company in Pontefract is seeking a Trainee Butcher. The position involves learning essential skills like safe knife use and meat preparation while ensuring high standards. The company offers daily rates between £71.32 to £100, onsite gym, staff shop, parking, and a yearly attendance bonus.

Benefits

Onsite Gym

Staff shop

Free onsite parking

Yearly attendance bonus

Subsidised canteen

3% Pension contribution

Qualifications

• No prior experience required, but keen interest to develop a new skill.
• Ability to work either independently or as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Learn safe and correct knife use.
• Learn advanced knife skills.
• Learn how to prepare and trim cuts of meat.
• Learn how to achieve daily targets.
• Learn how to minimise waste.

Skills

Good attitude towards health and safety

Ability to work under pressure

Flexible working ability

Enjoy working to targets

Job description

Position Details

Role: Trainee Butcher

Daily Rate: £71.32 to £100 per day

Contract: Permanent

Location: Pontefract, WF8 3DD

Shift Available: Monday to Friday 06:00am to 14:30pm

Who are we?

We are a family business established in Yorkshire in 1997 based in Pontefract with a reputation for exceptional product, innovation, and industry-leading animal welfare standards. Our facilities combine traditional British butchery techniques with some of the best technological prowess in the food sector.

A committed team of over 800 staff oversee the whole process: from procuring the best possible livestock from our carefully picked group of farms, through butchery, retail packaging, and despatch before it finally arrives on the supermarket shelf or as part of the restaurant dining experience.

About You

• Good attitude towards health and safety
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexible in your ability to work on your own or within a Team
• Enjoy working to targets
• This role would be ideally suited to an individual who has a keen interest to develop a new skill in a fast-paced environment

Role

• Learn the safe and correct knife use
• Learn advanced knife skills
• Learn how to prepare and trim, cuts of meat
• Learn how to achieve daily targets
• Learn how to minimise waste

Benefits

• Onsite Gym
• Staff shop
• Free onsite parking
• Yearly attendance bonus – (qualifying criteria)
• Subsidised canteen
• 3% Pension contribution