BUTCHER / MEAT CUTTER

About the role

Butchers and Meat Cutters create an exceptional customer service experience by preparing and cutting quality meats to specifications while ensuring the meat department is properly maintained.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with a primary emphasis on fast, friendly, and accurate service.
• Prepare and package food products and process customer orders to their specifications.
• Process fresh meats, smoked meats, seafood, random weight, lunchmeat, frozen food, and salted meats to production standards.
• Receive and break down meat deliveries, stack, date, and rotate coolers.
• Utilize peak-time performance cutting lists to cut and trim all products as directed by company standards.
• Properly wrap, weigh, and price products as needed.
• Cube, slice, and grind meat as needed.
• Minimize shrinkage through proper handling of products.
• Stock and rotate department products to ensure freshness and date control.
• Comply with local, state, and government weights and measuring laws, sanitation standards, grinding logs, and country of origin labeling requirements.
• Maintain a sanitary work area in compliance with company policies and industry standards.
• Comply with safety and health standards to ensure safe handling of food.
• Identify, correct, and report unsafe conditions that could cause accidents.
• Properly clean equipment and tools utilized.
• Provide assistance to co-workers.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures and all regulations.
• Perform additional duties as needed.

Requirements

• Ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships with others.
• Basic computer skills and software management.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
• Strong communication skills with both customers and coworkers.
• Knowledge of and experience complying with equipment, safety principles, practices, procedures, and strategies to promote effective operations for the protection of people and property.
• Knowledge of and ability to operate equipment necessary to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to work flexible schedules through the day, evening, and weekend shifts.
• Ability to safely operate heavy and sharp tools/equipment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Butcher/Meat Cutter is required.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Physical Requirements

This position requires heavy lifting and carrying of objects up to 100 pounds with frequent walking, standing, bending, stooping, kneeling, reaching, and inspecting work sites. Work is performed indoors in a refrigerated climate-controlled setting.