Apprentice Butcher

Turnbull's Northumbrian Food Hall are recruiting for a **Butchery Apprentice**

Are you passionate about high-quality meats and eager to learn precise meat preparation?

This full-time apprenticeship position is perfect for someone who is enthusiastic about working with meat and willing to learn the skills required to ensure top-notch quality.

As an Apprentice Butcher at Turnbull's Northumbrian Food Hall's cutting unit, you will play a crucial role in our meat preparation process, ensuring our customers receive the finest cuts of meat.

**Your primary responsibilities will include**:

- Learning to cut, trim, and prepare various types of meat for distribution to the Food Hall.
- Maintaining high standards of hygiene and safety in the cutting unit.
- Assisting in managing stock and ensuring the freshness of products.
- Maintaining a clean and organised work area.

**This position will require**:

- A keen interest in butchery and meat preparation.
- Physical strength and stamina for manual lifting and standing for long periods.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Attention to detail to ensure consistent quality.
- Willingness to learn and follow instructions.

**If you are **
- Hard-working and passionate about learning butchery.
- Physically fit and enjoy hands-on, physical work.
- Committed to maintaining cleanliness and hygiene.
- Standards-driven, taking pride in the work you do.
- Able to work efficiently in a team-focused environment.

**And would love to **
- Be a key player in our cutting unit, ensuring top-quality meat products for our food hall.
- Work in a behind-the-scenes role that is crucial to our operations.
- Contribute to the success of one of the country’s finest independent food retail teams.

**We offer **
- Guaranteed hours and job security (we’ve been around since 1880).
- A competitive industry wage working in one of the country’s best Independent Food Halls (many of our team have been with us for a long time).
- Comprehensive training and development programmes to teach you the skills of butchery.
- A small family-owned business that values your ideas and contributions (you really make a difference to the success of the company).
- Flexible work schedules that promote work-life balance.
- The satisfaction of being part of a team that creates joy through quality meats.
- Opportunities for advancement within a growing company - we have big plans for our Northumbrian Food Hall

Together let's ‘carve’ up a storm and ensure our Food Hall always has the best quality meats - one cut at a time

Pay: From £12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Weekend availability

Application question(s):
Work Location: In person