We're Hiring: Butcher
Norfolk & Better | Dawe Estates Farm, Carbrooke | Full-time| 40 Hours Per Week | £30,000 – £36,000
We're a proudly independent, family-run business, and we've built a dynamic, friendly, family feel that we're proud of — our current team is dynamic, fun, and hardworking, and we're looking for someone who'll fit right in.
Our award-winning food business, Norfolk & Better, is on the lookout for an experienced and skilled butcher to join our talented team.
Based at Dawe Estates Farm, Carbrooke, we're a genuine field-to-fork enterprise — making our own flour and cheese, and rearing our own Wagyu-cross beef, pigs, and lambs, all butchered here in our own cutting room.
The role is genuinely varied, and you'll have real autonomy to run your day, bring your own ideas, and make the most of your skills and experience.
We have a reputation for quality and excellent products, and we're looking for a self-motivated butcher who'll bring energy and pro-activeness to the role — someone organised, who'll drive the butchery forward with creativity and take it to the next level.
You'll be just as happy breaking down a full carcass as you are chatting to customers on our monthly market stall. If you have excellent knife skills, a passion for traditional butchery, and value top-notch customer service, get in touch.
This isn't a stand-in-one-spot-all-day role. You'll be trusted to break down carcasses and turn them into great products (sausages, burgers, and more), think about what sells best at which farmers' markets and when, and help us plan ahead — from product mix right through to when animals go to slaughter.
What you'll be doing:
● Full carcass breakdown, start to finish
● Making sausages, burgers, and other products
● Packing, labelling, and pricing everything to a high standard
● Owning our traceability and HACCP records — keeping them accurate and up to date
● Reading what different markets want, and when — and adapting to it
● Getting out to markets yourself, selling and meeting customers
● Pitching in across the business, not just staying in the cutting room
● Helping plan meat selection and slaughter timing with our farm team
What we're looking for:
● Solid butchery experience, including carcass breakdown
● Experience making sausages, burgers, or similar products
● An ideas person and self-starter who can take the butchery forward and move it on to the next level
● Someone flexible, happy with varied hours
● A team player who wants to be involved in more than one part of the business
● Happy with a good degree of autonomy in how you manage your day
Working hours: Flexible — we just need cutting and prep wrapped up in time for markets, which will include some early starts and weekend work.
What you'll receive:
● Pension
● Employee/staff discount
● Free/on-site parking
● Flexitime
If this sounds like you, and you want to be part of our journey as we grow, innovate, and bring the finest cuts to our Norfolk & Better community, we'd love to hear from you.
www.norfolkandbetter.com
Pay: £30,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
