Butcher

Job Summary:

The Butcher cuts, trims, bones, ties, grinds meats, and clean poultry and fish using cutlery and powered equipment to portion and prepare meat in cooking form. They will also perform routine kitchen tasks efficiently within the established “Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group” standards in every aspect

Essential Job Functions:
• Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery, to ensure meat quality.
• Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form including the safe operation of tools
• Cure, smoke, tenderize and preserve meat.
• Scaling, gutting, deboning, skinning or peeling, and portioning of fish/seafood
• Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.
• Helping to verify and unload meat and fish deliveries from trucks
• Maintaining, filling and rotating product in meat cases
• Moving meat from coolers to cutting area and returning meat to coolers
• Maintaining high standards for product guidelines in sanitation, freshness, trim and cutting
• Cleaning equipment and tools
• Perform other kitchen duties as assigned

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, and individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education: High School diploma or general education degree (GED)

Required Experience:
• Minimum 2 years previous butcher experience in food & beverage industry
• Excellent understanding of various meat cutting methods
• Knowledge of health and safety rules in a kitchen
• Manual dexterity able to operate cutting tools and kitchen utensils
• Must be able to deal with quality control, production control, meat and fish storing
• Must be able to perform in a fast-paced kitchen environment

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
• Conversational English vocabulary
• Good eye-hand coordination
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carryout detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Strong team-minded approach to fellow-workers.
• Primary food quality work ethic
• Proficient knife skills

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Work Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme cold.

The noise level in the work environmental is usually loud.
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Wolfgang Puck Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.

Job Summary:

The Butcher cuts, trims, bones, ties, grinds meats, and clean poultry and fish using cutlery and powered equipment to portion and prepare meat in cooking form. They will also perform routine kitchen tasks efficiently within the established “Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group” standards in every aspect

Essential Job Functions:
• Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery, to ensure meat quality.
• Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form including the safe operation of tools
• Cure, smoke, tenderize and preserve meat.
• Scaling, gutting, deboning, skinning or peeling, and portioning of fish/seafood
• Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.
• Helping to verify and unload meat and fish deliveries from trucks
• Maintaining, filling and rotating product in meat cases
• Moving meat from coolers to cutting area and returning meat to coolers
• Maintaining high standards for product guidelines in sanitation, freshness, trim and cutting
• Cleaning equipment and tools
• Perform other kitchen duties as assigned

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, and individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education: High School diploma or general education degree (GED)

Required Experience:
• Minimum 2 years previous butcher experience in food & beverage industry
• Excellent understanding of various meat cutting methods
• Knowledge of health and safety rules in a kitchen
• Manual dexterity able to operate cutting tools and kitchen utensils
• Must be able to deal with quality control, production control, meat and fish storing
• Must be able to perform in a fast-paced kitchen environment

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
• Conversational English vocabulary
• Good eye-hand coordination
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carryout detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Strong team-minded approach to fellow-workers.
• Primary food quality work ethic
• Proficient knife skills

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Work Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme cold.

The noise level in the work environmental is usually loud.
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Wolfgang Puck Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.