Butcher

**Vacancy Title: Butcher (Code: 5431)**

**Employer Name: Asko Foods Ltd**

**Approximate number of staff employed: 18**

** **Vacancy Short Description**:

- To enable the full-time dedicated presence of a butcher in the processing plant.
- Perform quality inspections on meats and other products, negotiate and confirm orders with suppliers.
- Greet and speak to customers, providing advice, answering questions, and accepting orders.
- strong communication, task management, and customer service skills.
- Able to stand or walk for extending periods, prepared to lift heavy items and should work in cold environments.

**Culture/Environment**:
Asko Foods is a family run business, we cover several of the ethnic markets. Our aim is to deliver top quality meat products accessible and affordable to customers in and around
London, the UK and in the EU. Asko works as a family, having high level of team spirit, open
- minded, goal oriented and always searching for continuous improvement.

**Salary: Up to £11.90/Hr or £25,700 Per Annum.**

**Working Week**:
Average Expected Hours: 40 hours per week - Full Time.

**Vacancy Address: Asko Foods Ltd**
**Unit-4, New England Industrial Estate,**
**Gascoigne Road, Barking, London.**
**IG11 7NZ**

**Duties and responsibilities: 1. Perform quality Addons: inspections on meats 1. Able to use computer**

**and animal products. generated scale**
**2. Prepares meat for system.**

**curing or other processing.**

**3. Clean the tools and work surfaces.**

**4. Cut and prepare carcasses into manageable portions as per customer order.**

**5. Removing bones, gristle, surplus fat, rind, and other waste materials.**

**6. Able to stand or walk for extending periods, lift heavy items and should work in cold environments.**

**Required Competencies: Technical Skills Interpersonal skills**
**1. Experience of 1. Excellent**

**working with Communication bandsaw, meat slicer and fluent in and other food English. processing machine. 2. Positive,**

**2. Cut, grind, debone Committed, and and prepare meats adaptable for sale. individual, able to**

**3. Good understanding work in an of mathematics to entrepreneurial calculate weight and environment pricing thresholds.**

**4. Ability to weigh, pack, pricing and displaying products.**

**5. Adhere to food safety and sanitation controls.**

**6. Excellent Customer**
**Management.**

**Qualifications Required: 1. GCSE in English and 1. HACCP level 3 or**
**Maths or similar willing to be trained.**

**standard.**

**Salary**: £13.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking
- Store discount
- UK visa sponsorship

Schedule:

- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Barking: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Butchering: 3 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Butchery Qualification (preferred)

Work Location: In person