Butcher Assistant
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
Position: Butcher Assistant
Reports to: Butcher
A new boutique retail space in Yaletown, Luigi & Sons is a one-stop shop for the best butcher experience in Vancouver, high quality takeaway options, and house-made provisions. An extension of the Elisa Steakhouse family, Luigi & Sons allows guests to bring the very best selections home, including a hand-selected curation of meats sourced from high-grade local and global suppliers.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Butcher Assistant ensures the availability of a wide range of quality well cut meat for customers and contributes to an exceptional customer experience through sharing product knowledge, making recommendations, and offering a personalized service.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
(other duties may be assigned as required)
- Actively engage with customers, cultivating relationships and ensuring customer satisfaction
- Order, receive, inspect and store meat upon delivery
- Ensuring accurate cutting, grinding and preparing of meats for sale into portions and cooking form
- Preparing custom cutting to specific customer needs
- Using butcher’s cutlery and powered equipment, and maintaining same
- Weighing, packaging, pricing, and displaying product
- Managing budgets and tracking inventory
- Ensuring adherence to all Food and Safety procedures and to stock control guidelines
- Remain current on market trends and competitor activity
- Consistently meet sales targets
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in a meat department, working with equipment and machinery
- Experience in technical butchery skills including portion cutting and cleaning and grinding for sausages, burgers, etc.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent attention to detail with strong organizational skills and work ethic
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the job, including working in a cold/refrigerated environment, lifting 50 Ibs. and standing for extended periods of time
- Available to work a flexible scheduling, including weekends
This position will remain open until filled.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Butcher Assistant at Elisa will serve customers and make product recommendations, cut, grind and package meat to order, receive and store deliveries, and keep inventory and food safety standards. The role also involves pricing, displaying product and meeting sales targets.
Requirements
Elisa needs candidates with meat department experience, technical butchery skills such as portion cutting and sausage or burger grinding, and strong communication and organization skills. Candidates must lift 50 lbs, stand for long periods in a refrigerated environment, and work flexible hours including weekends.
Skills
- Meat cutting
- Portion cutting
- Meat grinding
- Sausage and burger preparation
- Butchery knives
- Powered meat equipment
- Meat packaging
- Weighing and pricing
- Product display
- Inventory management
- Budget tracking
- Food safety
- Stock control
- Receiving and storing deliveries
- Customer service
- Product knowledge
- Sales
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Organization
- Market trend awareness
- Custom cutting
Categories
- Retail
- Food & Beverage
- Customer Service & Support
- Sales
Keywords
- Butcher Assistant
- butcher
- meat cutting
- meat grinding
- portion cutting
- sausage making
- burger
- meat department
- butcher shop
- retail butcher
- food safety
- inventory
- customer service
- Vancouver
- Yaletown
- Elisa
- Luigi & Sons
- meat packaging
- meat pricing
- cold environment
Seniority
Entry level
Tools
- butcher's cutlery
- powered meat equipment