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Butchery Apprenticeship
DAVID JOINSON & SONS LTD is a successful and growing business looking for an enthusiastic apprentice to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable industry experience, develop practical skills, and work towards a recognised qualification while progressing your career.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Responsibilities
- Cutting & Preparation of meat from primal cuts to sub-primal cuts.
- Topping up shop counters to include prepacked multi-deck, pies, and the dairy section.
- Serving customers.
- Assist in washing and cleaning of equipment and maintaining a high standard of hygiene throughout.
- Sausage Manufacturing
- Assist in preparing products for the counter
- Manual handling - taking delivery of boxed products, lifting and carrying.
- Handling of sharp tools, operating various equipment, e.g., mincers, slicing machines, weigh scales, tills, card machines.
Requirements
- GCSE in: GCSE (including Maths & English) (grade 4 / C and above)
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Benefits
- Full time position within the business after completion of the apprenticeship.
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The apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
About DAVID JOINSON & SONS LTD
Trading for 40 years, traditional butchers making homemade pies & sausages and also do burger manufacturing.
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Training Details
- Training provider: REASEHEATH COLLEGE
- Training course: Butcher (level 2)
What you'll learn
- Course contents:
- Comply with regulations and legislation relevant to their role and business.
- Maintains and sharpens knives and cutting equipment.
- Manual handling of carcases or primals through the manufacturing or butchery process.
- Adhere to the organisational policies and standard operating procedures.
- Maintain the meat product to the given customer specification and food safety compliance and traceability procedures in the meat supply chain.
- Support colleagues in delivering the daily workplace requirements.
- Use technology and applications to support production, sales, and customer service.
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities which focus on improving sustainability within the business.
- Communicate with customers and stakeholders to meet their requirements.
- Process and dispose of waste material.
- Uses knives and cutting equipment to undertake a range of primary and secondary butchery skills.
- Serve customers in line with brand standards.
- Advise customers on the use by dates, storage, preparation, and cooking of meat products.
- Prepare, produce, and display meat products such as joints, portions, sausages, burgers, value-added products and offer alternative products when required.
- Plan and prepare for seasonal supply and demand of meat products in the merchandising and promotion of seasonal foods.
- Provide provenance and heritage product information.
- Set up and close meat counter displays.
- Balance the customers’ needs with additional linked products and services such as marinades, and encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.
- Produce meat to the specific volume, size, and weight to meet the needs of stakeholders.
- Maximise the saleable yield for the business relating to carcases or primals.
- Contribute to efficiencies to support the key performance indicators (KPIs) of the business through working to agreed specifications for their role.
- Adhere to customer specifications and contracts.
- Contribute to foreign body control and metal detection.
- Meet key performance indicators within meat processing.
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