Job Description

Butcher

Full Time | 40–45 hours per week | Competitive remuneration package

Qualified or experienced Butcher

At New World Centre City, our Butchery team takes pride in delivering excellent customer experiences through quality products, great service, and a fresh, premium offer. We are now looking for a qualified or experienced Butcher to join our team and help us continue delivering the excellence New World is known for.

As a Butcher, you’ll play a key role in preparing and presenting a quality range of butchery products. You’ll take pride in maintaining high standards of freshness, consistency, food safety, and customer service.

Hours

• Full Time | 40–45 hours per week
• Sunday–Thursday | 5:00am–1:30/2:30pm

Tasks/Responsibilities

You’ll contribute to an excellent customer experience by:

• Producing New World’s range of quality, fresh butchery products
• Presenting butchery products, displays, and the shop area to a high standard
• Ensuring stock is available for customers throughout the day
• Cleaning and maintaining butchery tools, equipment, and preparation areas
• Helping our customers ‘find their wonderful, every day at New World’

Experience/Qualifications

We’re looking for someone with proven butchery experience and, ideally, a relevant qualification. You’ll have a strong work ethic, take pride in what you do, and bring a positive contribution to a healthy, safe, and engaged workplace. You may also be ready to support and inspire the next generation of Butchers.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hold a Butchery qualification. If you have the right experience, work ethic, and attitude, we’d still like to hear from you.

New World Centre City

New World Centre City has proudly served the Dunedin community since opening in 1986. As part of Foodstuffs South Island, we are locally owned and operated, committed to delivering excellent customer experiences whenever our customers choose to shop.

We want our people to have the clarity, capability, and motivation to succeed. We offer a competitive remuneration package, a healthy, safe and engaged workplace, and opportunities for continued professional development, skill showcasing, and career progression.

If this sounds like the right role for you, and a team you’d like to be part of, click apply now.

Prefer to speak with us first?

Contact People and Culture by email at liam.purcell@newworld-si.co.nz or PH: 021 1511 655.

Or, see us in store and speak directly with Jayson (Butchery Manager), or any of our Butchery team!

Applications close Sunday 28 June 2026.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.

We are not an AEWV-accredited employer and are unable to progress applications who require an AEWV-accredited employer.