Butchery Apprentice
Dunbia Meats/Dawn Meats
Bridlington (YO15 3QY)
Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 8 July 2025)
Posted on 12 June 2025
Contents
Summary
We are actively seeking applications from individuals keen to take up a career within one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. This is an opportunity to join a well-established Butchery team as an Apprentice on a 12-to-14-month programme.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Butcher (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 7.00am start for under 18's, 6.00am start for over 18's. 37.5 hours per week with 2x 30 minute breaks.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 8 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
- Meat Preparation: Learning how to cut, trim, debone, and grind meat. This includes mastering knife techniques and using equipment like slicers and grinders
- Quality Control: Inspecting meat for defects, bruises, or blemishes and ensuring compliance with quality standards
- Food Safety and Sanitation: Handling and storing meat according to proper food safety and sanitation procedures
- Inventory Management: Checking inventory levels, preparing the workspace, and ensuring all equipment is in proper working order
Where you'll work
The Abattoir Lancaster Road
Carnaby
Bridlington
YO15 3QY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WORKFORCE TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD
Your training course
Butcher (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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.
- 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.
Your training plan
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
Requirements
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this company
Dunbia is a leading food company specializing in the production of beef and lamb products. Founded in Moygashel, Co Tyrone, Dunbia has grown significantly and now operates globally1. They focus on creating high-quality, naturally flavorful food and serve various market sectors with a wide range of products Dunbia is known for its commitment to quality, food safety, and sustainability. They have multiple locations across the UK and Ireland, including abattoirs, processing facilities, and retail packing sites.
After this apprenticeship
Can progress to the Level 3 qualification.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Dunbia Meats/Dawn Meats
Helen Jones
dunbia.jobs@dunbia.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325609.
Apply now
Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 8 July 2025)
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