Skilled Butcher (Wholesale)
The Butchers Recruiter
This is a hands-on butchery role focused on quality, consistency, and craftsmanship, supplying high-quality products to hospitality and catering customers.
This is not a production-line role - it will suit a butcher who takes pride in their work and delivers consistently high standards.
What’s on Offer
- Hourly rate of £16.38 – £19.88, based on experience, skill level, output, and competency
- Enhanced overtime available
- Stable, day-based shift pattern with early finish
- Permanent role offering long-term security
- Supportive, team-focused working environment
- Opportunity to develop within a skilled butchery operation
This is a modern butchery environment focused on skilled meat preparation and order fulfilment, supplying high-quality products. It is not a slaughterhouse role, but a clean, structured operation where craftsmanship and consistency are key.
You will be responsible for preparing a variety of meat products to wholesale and customer-specific requirements within a fast-paced butchery environment.
- Preparing and portioning beef, lamb, pork, and chicken
- Working with primal and part-processed cuts
- Producing wholesale cuts and bespoke customer orders
- Preparing value-added products such as mince, burgers, and sausages
- Operating butchery machinery safely and efficiently
- Receiving and checking stock deliveries
- Labelling and preparing orders for dispatch
- Using internal systems to process orders and print labels
- Maintaining high standards of food safety, hygiene, and product quality
- Proven experience in butchery (retail, wholesale, or food production)
- Strong knife skills and product knowledge
- Experience preparing value-added and processed products
- Confidence using butchery equipment and machinery
- Good attention to detail and commitment to high standards
- Ability to work efficiently within a team environment
- Basic IT skills for order processing and labelling
Shift: 7:00am – 3:30pm
Working Pattern: 5 days from 6 (Sunday to Friday)
If you’re an experienced Butcher looking for a stable role where your skills are valued and rewarded, we’d like to hear from you.
Application opens at the source listing. Free for jobseekers.