ABP UK is a major division of the ABP Food Group with factories in Ireland, UK and Europe. We are a food business that specialises in the supply and development of award-winning British and Irish beef and lamb products for retail, foodservice, and wholesale.
Role Definition
The butchery trimmer will ensure that targets are met and regularly challenged and improved on. Delivering high standards of quality, ensuring products are produced in line with customer specifications as well as critical control points, GMP, and health and safety requirements. Paying special regard to:
* quality, cost control, yield, and utilization
* health, safety, and ethics
* product integrity
* company, personal, and food hygiene rules and legislation
In the chill production line area, using butchery implements and machinery, cut, bone, process, and package goods to quality standards, to deadlines, whilst complying with company operating requirements at all times. Ensuring that beef and lamb cuts are trimmed according to ABP and customer specifications as directed by management.
Key Responsibilities
* Ensuring meat is trimmed to produce optimum production yield while adhering to legislation and company requirements and in line with planned volume and schedule.
* Removal of fat, gristle, and other waste material in line with specifications.
* Working as part of a team and taking responsibility for own work.
* Ensure strict adherence to quality, food safety, hygiene, ethical, and allergen handling processes.
* Drive necessary line efficiency through consistent and correct machine and/or knife operation.
* Keep and maintain records as required.
* Ensure own familiarity and compliance with company policies and procedures, standards of operation, and safe operating procedures.
* Ensure consistent and timely attendance.
* Provide flexibility to meet company operating requirements.
* Provide pro-active and re-active and supportive communication to team members, supervisors, and managers.
* Ensure all products are sourced and manufactured to the food safety and brand integrity requirements defined by our customers and BRC standards.
Person Specification
* Speaking, writing, and understanding basic English language (essential health and safety, traceability, and quality control requirement).
* Demonstrate the ability to follow detailed operating procedures with a high degree of attention to detail.
* Ability to follow instructions including those relating to personal health and safety and the wearing of PPE.
* Knife and cutting tool skills.
* Previous red meat experience preferred.
* Awareness of food safety.
* Ability to show some knowledge of red meat in terms of cuts and trimming.
* Quickly, cleanly, and efficiently processing food items in production line team.
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