Retail Butcher

**40 hours per week, Tuesday to Saturday**

**Company Overview**

Block & Bottle is a premier butcher shop located in Heaton, dedicated to providing high-quality meat products and fantastic customer service. We pride ourselves on sourcing whole carcasses and making all our offerings, including sausages, bacon, salami, and charcuterie ourselves.

**Summary**

We are looking for a talented butcher and proactive individual to join our team working in our shop serving customers and butchering - preparing joints & cuts, breaking down carcasses, putting out meat window displays, making products, preparing and packaging orders who provides excellent customer service.

**Responsibilities**
- Breaking down carcasses into primals, portioning and cutting (training will be provided if no prior whole carcass butchery experience)
- Sausage, bacon and charcuterie production
- Slicing and packing produce
- Setting up attractive window and counter displays - cutting and displaying meat to a high standard
- Working efficiently through a daily list either on your own or as a team
- Following verbal instructions and printed recipes accurately
- Correctly preparing and store meat to ensure the best quality produce
- Striving to minimise waste and utilise everything
- Maintaining our high standard of customer service, that goes above and beyond - providing cooking advice, answering customer queries and ensuring we have a wide variety of products available for them
- Making sure all paperwork such as temperature and cooking logs is completed, and products are correctly labelled including for allergens. Promote a culture of prioritising food hygiene, health and safety and allergen advice/management
- Maintaining a clean and tidy work environment
- Happily take on new duties as the needs of the business grow

**Requirements**:

- Recent bone in butchery experience is required - whole carcass butchery experience is a bonus (no prior charcuterie experience is necessary).
- Effectively communicates with other staff and management
- Be able to work safely and tidily in a busy environment, and effectively work in stressful situations.
- Exceptional customer service skills and butchery knowledge to be able to effectively advise customers on the best cuts of meat, cooking guidelines and allergen information
- Be passionate about good quality food and drink, and cares about the provenance of our meat
- Be physically fit enough to lift carcasses and be on your feet all day
- Be able to use Slack (the communication app) and our till system - training will be provided
- Be a team player and have a solution purposed mind set
- Proof of ability to work in the UK

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

- How many years bone in butchery experience do you have?

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 25/04/2025