Meat Cutter
Job Summary
Aids customers and cuts meat to specifications for variety, size, quality, and trim for sale. Assists in the daily operations in meat and seafood departments. Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions. Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable, and prompt service. Executes merchandising plans as outlined in department planners, toolkits, or event packs, mindful of merchandising standards, product levels, shrink, and sales trends.
About the Role
Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.
Essential Responsibilities
Service: Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated to increase customer confidence and loyalty. Prepares and packages food products and processes customer orders to their specifications; processes fresh meats, smoked meats, seafood, random weight, lunchmeat, frozen food, and salted meats to production standards. Utilizes peak time performance cutting lists to cut and trim all products as directed by company standards. Properly wraps, weighs, and prices product as needed. Properly cubes, slices, and grinds meat as needed. Operates department equipment and tools. Ensures customer requests and special orders are fulfilled. Perform duties of meat/seafood counter clerk, as necessary.
Leadership: Promotes trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job specific information. Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
Financial: Stocks and rotates department products to ensure freshness and date control; restocks and uses supply items efficiently to eliminate waste and to maintain the lowest supply cost. Receives and breakdowns meat deliveries. Keeps work area clean, orderly, and free from safety hazards. Maintains an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions and reports any discrepancies in inventory. Reviews/inspects products for quality and freshness and takes appropriate action with those items. Utilizes production planning tools to accurately produce fresh products and ensures discarding or markdown processes are followed to reduce shrink. Ensures product is held at the proper temperature per food safety guidelines and retains documentation of temperate logs per policy.
Compliance/Safety: Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, and productivity are maintained. Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, USDA & COOL, and DOA. Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access. Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management. Notifies management of customer or employee accidents. Reports all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud. Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations. Cultivates a culture of safety within the store. Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training. Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required. Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.
Qualifications
Education: High School / GED
Language(s): English
Experience: 0 - 3 years minimum supervisory experience
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same. Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check. Strong customer service skills. Exceptional interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills. Knowledge of basic math. Ability to handle stressful situations. Possess adequate knife handling skills and knife speed. Knowledge of cutting, traying, wrapping, and labeling.