Butchery Apprentice
GOODWOOD ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED(THE)
West Sussex (PO18 0PX)
Closes in 22 days (Sunday 8 March 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 February 2026
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Summary
Our apprentice will support Goodwood Home Farm’s mission to produce exceptional, sustainable and organic meat by learning traditional skills alongside our Master Butcher. You will help prepare high quality cuts for the estate’s restaurants and farm shop and be a part of the UK’s largest lowland organic farm.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Butcher (level 2)
- Hours
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Days of the week will vary, but a start time of 6.00am, with a finish at 3.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 March 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Day to day tasks will vary, but will include:
- Assisting with carcass breakdown, meat preparation, and ageing across beef, lamb, and pork- each organically reared on the estate.
- Learning to prepare a variety of cuts under expert guidance.
- Supporting trimming, deboning, tying, grinding, and portioning of meat (General butchery duties referenced from industry standards).
- Weighing, packaging, and labelling products to high quality standards.
- Maintaining excellent hygiene and food safety practices, adhering to HACCP and regulatory requirements.
- Working collaboratively within a passionate, skilled team committed to delivering outstanding organic produce.
Where you'll work
Goodwood
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0PX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PLUMPTON COLLEGE
Training course
Butcher (level 2)
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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.
Training schedule
Training will take place in person bi-weekly at Plumpton College, there will be a blend of in-person and online elements.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
About this employer
Goodwood is a quintessentially English estate, set in 12,000 acres of rolling West Sussex countryside. Rooted in our heritage, we deliver extraordinary and engaging experiences in modern and authentic ways. But what really sets us apart is our people. It is their passion, enthusiasm and belief in the many things we do that makes Goodwood the unique place it is.
Company benefits
Tickets to events, health care cash plan, employee well-being programme, employee assistance programme, free parking, yearly group share bonus opportunity and discounts across the estate and Chichester.
After this apprenticeship
A full time position as an experience butcher.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PLUMPTON COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014259.
Apply now
Closes in 22 days (Sunday 8 March 2026 at 11:59pm)