Butcher/knife Handler

We are currently recruiting for Butchers at our East Kilbride site.

Would you like to join one of the UK’s largest privately owned fresh meat companies offering flexible working opportunities, excellent career opportunities and excellent benefits?

At Scotbeef Ltd, our passion is to produce the highest quality innovative meat products for the UK retail market. Working in partnership with farmers producing livestock to the highest welfare standard, using efficient and sustainable processing systems and investing tin the latest technology. We believe that people are at the heart of everything we do. In order to achieve the best for our customer, we need to invest in the best people.

**Job Function**
In chill production line area, using butchery implements and machinery, cut, bone, process and package goods to a quality standard, to deadlines, whilst complying at all times with company operating requirements, especially in respect of quality, health, safety & ethics, traceability, product integrity, labelling and company, personal & food hygiene rules and legislation

**Main responsibilities**
- Produce required products meeting company standards to planned volume and schedule
- Ensure necessary replenishment requirements
- Ensure strict adherence to quality, food safety, hygiene, ethical, product labelling and allergen handling processes
- Follow traceability process and ensure product & labelling integrity at all times
- Drive necessary line efficiency through consistent and correct machine operation
- Keep and maintain appropriate records as required
- Ensure own familiarity and compliance with company policies and procedures, standards of operation and safe operating procedures
- Ensure consistent and timely attendance at work
- Provide flexibility to meet company operating requirements
- Provide pro
- and re-active and supportive verbal and written communication to team members, supervisors and managers
- To ensure all Scotbeef products are sourced and manufactured to the Food Safety & Brand Integrity requirements defined by our customers’ requirements & BRC standards.
Skills/Background
- Pervious Butcher experience preferred but not essential
- Speaking, writing and understanding basic spoken and written English language. (This is an essential health & safety, traceability and quality control requirement which will be tested as part of the recruitment process)
- Attentive to details
- Flexible, adaptable and keen to learn
- Strong team collaborator
- Basic numeracy skills
Shift Pattern
- Monday - Thursday 6am - 3pm and 6am - 2pm on Friday

**Benefits**:

- Heavily Subsidised Canteen (£3 per week for hot breakfast and lunch)
- Staff Sales
- 29 days Annual Leave & up to 6 Service Days
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Insurance
- Onsite parking

**Salary**: £9.66-£10.66 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
**Experience**:

- Butchering: 1 year (preferred)