Our client an Irish based food company with over 50 years experience serving international markets, restaurants and household foodservice names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend foodservice solutions and ready-for-market convenience foods, currently have vacancies within their Slaughter room for Skilled and Unskilled Operatives.
We are looking for Skilled operatives, however we will also consider applications from those from a Food Production back ground i.e. Fish processing, Temperature control and any other food production environment.
This is a fulltime position working Monday to Friday 0600 - finish (minimum 40 hours per week).
Main duties will include but not be limited to:
- Perform dressing and preparation of carcasses
- Perform boning, butchering, trimming and finishing tasks at line speed
- Processing beef and lamb at the required speed
- Operate and maintain tools and machinery on the slaughter line
- Splitting carcasses, skinning, passport checking (ID & Scan)
- Trimming (fat, contamination, foreign bodies)
- Completion of tasks in a timely manner to meet daily targets
- Maintain cleanliness and organisation within your work area
- Adhere to food safety standards during all stages of food production
- Perform prestart, hygiene and safety checks
- Store and maintain tools and equipment to company standard
- Participate in any training required
Attributes, Skills and Experience:
- Commitment to company values, team relations
- Display a passion for food, and the process of where our food comes from
- Previous experience in culinary or kitchen environments is advantageous
- Knowledge of food safety practices is desirable
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced food production setting
- Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
- Work ethic
- Willingness to learn and develop skills/new skills
- Communicate well across both written and orally
Our Client's People and Culture, is to ensure they are creating an open, positive, and genuinely welcoming working environment.
In a challenging and dynamic environment, their philosophy is always to be 'more than’. We are more than tradition, more than quality, more than meat and more than a job.