Butcher

About the role

This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys butchery but also wants variety in their working day. You'll be involved across the production operation at Simply Meats, a locally owned and operated meat processing and wholesale business based in Papamoa, Tauranga.

Key responsibilities

• Cutting, trimming and preparing beef, pork and lamb
• Preparing meat to customer specifications
• Mincing and dicing
• Sausage and sausage meat production
• Burger and patty production
• Bacon and smallgoods production
• Portioning, weighing, vacuum packing and labelling
• Operating bandsaws, mincers, mixers, fillers and other processing equipment
• Maintaining product quality and consistency
• Working to production schedules and customer orders
• Maintaining high food safety, hygiene and health & safety standards

About you

• Commercial butchery or meat-processing experience
• Confident working with knives and meat-processing machinery
• Good practical butchery skills
• Takes pride in producing quality products
• Reliable and turns up ready to work
• Works efficiently without compromising quality
• Understands the importance of yield and minimising waste
• Good attention to detail
• Can follow recipes, specifications and production instructions
• Works well as part of a team
• Happy to work across different areas of production
• Takes food safety and workplace safety seriously
• Smallgoods experience would be an advantage, particularly with sausages, patties, bacon or similar products

About us

Simply Meats is a locally owned and operated meat processing and wholesale business based in Papamoa, Tauranga. We supply quality meat and smallgoods products to hospitality, bakeries, food manufacturers and other businesses throughout New Zealand.

Benefits

• Monday to Friday work
• Stable, full-time position 35 - 45 hrs
• No supermarket retail environment
• Variety across butchery and smallgoods production
• Training across production processes and equipment
• Practical, hands-on working environment
• Opportunity to become an important part of a growing local business