About this role
Meat Deboner Employer: ASHGROVE WHOLESALE LIMITED Location: ASHGROVE MEATS LTD., Dually, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Eircode: V42 XN81 Contract: Full-time, Permanent Hours: 39 hours per week Salary: €36,605 per annum Vacancies: 3 Ashgrove Wholesale Ltd. operates a meat processing facility in Limerick, specialising in beef, pork and lamb for domestic and export markets. The company is seeking three experienced Meat Deboners to join its production team.
The role involves removing bones from meat cuts with precision, separating and trimming meat according to production specifications, and ensuring that products meet required quality and hygiene standards. Work is carried out in a chilled processing environment, in compliance with applicable EU and Irish food safety regulations, HACCP procedures and workplace health and safety requirements. Essential Knowledge: animal anatomy for food production, cultural practices regarding animal parts sorting, cultural practices regarding animal slaughter, documentation concerning meat production. Optional Knowledge: food storage, legislation about animal origin products.
- Essential Skills and
Competences
- Cope with blood, ensure refrigeration of food in the supply chain, ensure sanitation, follow hygienic procedures during food processing, handle knives for cutting activities, handle knives for meat processing activities, handle meat processing equipment in cooling rooms, lift heavy weights, maintain cutting equipment, mark differences in colours, operate cutting equipment, operate weighing machine, process livestock organs, sort cut parts of carcasses inside cooling compartments, split animal carcasses, tend meat processing production machines, tolerate strong smells, trace meat products, use cutting equipment, weigh parts of animal carcasses, work in cold environments.
- Optional Skills and
Competences
- act reliably, adapt efficient food processing practices, consider economic criteria in decision making, dispose food waste, ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production, execute chilling processes to food products, have computer literacy, liaise with colleagues, liaise with managers, manage challenging work conditions during food processing operations, operate metal contaminants detector, provide first aid, slaughter livestock following cultural practices.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV, detailing relevant experience and references, to [email protected]