Butcher job description

About the job

We are looking for a butcher to cut and prepare red meat and poultry to customers' orders while keeping strictly to hygiene and food safety.

Duties and responsibilities

• Break down carcasses, bone meat and prepare cuts to customers' orders
• Mince meat and prepare products such as kofta, merguez and marinated meat for grilling
• Weigh, wrap and price meat
• Receive meat and check its quality, dates and temperature
• Store meat correctly in the fridges and monitor temperatures
• Clean and sanitize knives, saws, surfaces and fridges every day
• Serve customers and advise them on cuts and how to cook them

Working conditions

• Work in the cold, in fridges and cold rooms
• Long periods standing and lifting carcasses
• Busier in Ramadan, before Eid al-Adha and at festive times

Requirements

• No specific qualification required, with a valid health certificate
• 3 to 6 years of experience in meat cutting and preparation

The years of experience follow the level you choose when posting.

Skills

• Meat cutting
• Hygiene and food safety
• Customer service
• Knife skills
• Cash handling
• Boning
• Poultry cutting
• Mincers and bone saws

Preferred

• Experience with halal slaughter in an abattoir
• Experience on a supermarket meat counter or in a meat plant