Meat Cutter

About the role

Responsible for meat operation including but not limited to preparing, storing, cutting, cleaning, and serving meat.

Responsibilities

• Monitor food distribution and ensure that guidelines are followed.
• Clean and sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, and facilities.
• Maintain coolers, cases and displays by keeping them stocked.
• Observe scheduled shift hours as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
• Give all customers friendly, courteous, and prompt service.
• Maintain good communication with the meat manager.
• Share responsibility for controlling shrink.
• Assist in maintaining proper record to control shrink through inventory and ordering.
• Responsible for assisting in inventorying all products on hand before prepaying a meat order.
• Assist Meat Manager in taking a four-week period meat inventory.
• Ensure that product is being rotated when received and stocked.
• Ensure that all meat coolers and meat cases are running at the proper temperature.
• Ensure that proper safety procedures are being used.
• Properly clean and maintain meat department, coolers, cases and equipment.

Qualifications

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED) and prior cutting experience preferred.

Skills

• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
• Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
• Basic computer skills.

Physical Demands

The job requires frequent lifting, carrying, standing, and walking, with occasional sitting, bending, and reaching.

• Lift/Carry: 10 lbs or less (frequently), 11-20 lbs (frequently), 21-50 lbs (frequently)
• Stand: Frequently
• Walk: Occasionally
• Sit: Occasionally
• Handling/Fingering: Frequently
• Reach Outward: Frequently
• Reach Above Shoulder: Occasionally