Butchery Apprentice
DUNBIA (ENGLAND)
Cornwall (PL15 9PU)
Closes in 25 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 June 2026
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Summary
Dunbia Treburley are offering exciting opportunities to join their team as a Butchery Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity to receive professional training in essential butchery skills in various areas of the Butchery department, in conjunction with learning skills through attendance at Duchy College.
- Wage
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£24,784.50 a year
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The hourly wage will be £12.71, however if good progress is made apprentices will be eligible to increase their hourly rate through a weekly bonus upon assessment.
- Training course
- Butcher (level 2)
- Hours
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Under 18 - 07:00 to 14:15. Over 18 - 05:45 - 14:15.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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10
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
Working as part of a team receiving professional training in essential butchery skills in various areas of the butchery department, in conjunction with learning skills through attendance at workshops with Duchy College (part of The Cornwall College Group) and learning on the job under the supervision of the Butchery Manager.
The training will provide you with the following skills development and learning:
- Professional butcher knife skills
- Carrying out boning, both moving line and block
- Carrying out trimming of various cuts of meats
- How to maintain various food standards
- How to work within and maintain Health and Safety standards
- How to manage stock control and associated paperwork
- How to correctly store meat products
- Assisting the Butchery Manager as required, in order to ensure the smooth running of the department
- How to effectively as part of a team
Functional Skills will be developed as needed in Maths and English to ensure accuracy of reading instructions and weights and measures.
Where you'll work
Dunbia Treburley
Treburley
Launceston
Cornwall
PL15 9PU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CORNWALL 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
You will be working towards a Level 2 Butchery Apprenticeship standard.
You will be required to attend Duchy College Stoke Climsland on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training.
You will receive support from an assessor and an Apprenticeship Advisor.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 3)
- Maths (grade 3)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
All PPE (workwear such as boots, hats, chainmail) and equipment (such as knives) will be provided by the Company. We are a remote site, but very close to Duchy College.
The provision of your own transport is essential. This can be your own vehicle, sharing with others (informal car shares established by the employees themselves are in existence) or any other mode of travel.
Unfortunately, due to the starting hours, bus services are not compatible with our working hours.
About this employer
As a family business that remains true to its farming heritage, Dunbia's desire to better food naturally is the driving force behind everything we do and ensures we maintain a consistent focus on quality, value and success for our customers.
We serve every market sector with the widest range of product choices, all produced to exacting standards, and the strategic location of our sites means we can offer customers English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish products.
We are passionate about our industry and undertake every opportunity to engage with our stakeholders and increase the level of understanding of meat production and to support the wider food industry.
After this apprenticeship
We are hopeful that on successful completion of the course we will be able to continue our relationship with the employee and progress them through the business if they are suitable, with opportunities of team leaderships and junior management potentially available.
This opportunity is seen as a long-term job role, and the employment is within that of a large national company - for the right candidate there could also be opportunities for career progression within the group.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034566.
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Closes in 25 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)