Meat Cutter/butcher

**About Us**:
Summerhill Market is a boutique grocery store chain in Toronto that specializes in scratch-made prepared foods and on-trend ingredients. Our stores go above and beyond a typical grocery store by offering an extensive rotating selection of ready to eat gourmet meals, freshly baked goodies, and curated hard to find groceries.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our growing team and help elevate our brand to the next level. Summerhill Market is an industry trend setter, and we are looking for individuals who are passionate about food and customer service.

Summerhill Market is looking for a **Meat Cutter** to join the Deli team at our **Rosedale** location.

We’re looking for a skilled **Meat Cutter/Butcher** to join our team at our boutique grocery store. This is a hands-on role that combines traditional butchery skills with customer service. You’ll prepare high-quality meat products while interacting with customers at the counter, helping them select the right cuts and offering expert advice.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Cutting, trimming, deboning, and portioning a variety of meats including beef, pork, poultry, and lamb to customer specifications
- Preparing value-added meat items such as skewers, marinated cuts, sausages, and oven-ready products
- Providing exceptional service at the meat counter — greeting customers, answering questions, fulfilling special requests, and offering recommendations
- Weighing, wrapping, labeling, and pricing meat products accurately
- Maintaining a clean, organized, and sanitary work area in compliance with food safety standards
- Monitoring product quality and freshness and ensuring proper rotation of inventory
- Assisting with merchandising the meat counter and maintaining attractive product displays
- Supporting other team members across the store as needed, including deli and prepared foods
- Following company policies and procedures including proper signage, pricing, and loss prevention

**Skillset Requirements**:

- Strong knowledge of meat cuts and butchery techniques
- Passion for food and a customer-first mindset
- Excellent knife skills and comfort working with meat processing equipment (e.g., bandsaw, grinders, slicers)
- Food Safety Handlers Certification (or willingness to obtain)
- Previous experience working in a butcher shop, meat department, or grocery setting preferred
- Ability to communicate clearly with customers and team members, including answering questions and handling special requests professionally
- Physically fit - able to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for long periods, and work in cold environments (coolers/freezers)
- Flexible availability for mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays as required
- Willingness to learn and adapt to store systems, including inventory and ordering platforms
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred

**Perks**:
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer some pretty cool perks
- Weekly pay
- Awesome employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Employer paid benefits for all full-time employees
- Dynamic workplace culture that promotes collaboration, internal training/development, diversity & inclusion and recognizing, rewards & celebrates employees
- Easily accessible locations
- Complimentary work swag (your Summerhill Market work shirts are provided)

**Equity Statement**:

- At Summerhill Market, we are an equal opportunity employer that values and encourages diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, disability or any other characteristic protected by local law. Should you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate._
- The purpose of this document is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for this position and is not an exhaustive list. Duties, assignments, and other responsibilities may differ for similar positions based on business needs of each location._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Grocery/Food Industry: 1 year (preferred)
- Meat Cutting/Butchery: 1 year (preferred)
- Food Handling: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person