Meat Cutter

Join us at WinCo Foods, where we're more than just a grocery retailer—we're a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. Currently, WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States, with more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Our benefits, including top-tier medical plans and tuition support, set us apart.

About the Role

Maintain desired level of fresh meat production. Ensure customer service, product quality, freshness, and selection. Maintain cleanliness of department and equipment. Generally works 6-8 hour shifts between 5:00 am and 11:00 pm.

Responsibilities

• Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve, and thank customers.
• Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis on taking care of the customer.
• Cuts, grinds, and wraps fresh meat products according to quantity, quality, and freshness standards.
• Ensures trim specifications are followed and proper temperatures are maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display, and storage.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
• Stocks and rotates product to prevent shrink and control expenses.
• Prevents sale of spoiled and/or outdated product by following legal regulations and company policy on weighing, labeling, code dating, and processing re-worked or reduced-to-clear items.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product, signing, inventory level in retail cases, and eye-appeal of the department.
• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of work area, equipment, cutting room, and retail cases according to company policy and the law.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed.

Requirements

• Experience cutting meat or performing similar work in a meat production environment.
• Ability to work varied shifts in a 24/7 operation, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Perform friendly, courteous, tactful interactions and maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
• Conduct visual inspections, read production guides, and product labels.
• Properly use cleaning chemicals in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines and instructions.
• Properly handle related food products per State and County laws and WinCo standards.
• Communicate with co-workers and follow written work assignments/instructions.
• Reach, lift, and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs. frequently.
• Push and pull fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks.
• Perform repetitious arm and hand movements required to cut, slice, and process meat products.
• Stand for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, twist, and turn frequently.
• Perform safe/productive movements and operate related equipment with manual dexterity and hand/eye coordination.
• Work with hands exposed to moisture.
• Work for prolonged periods in a refrigerated area (32 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit), handling refrigerated goods (occasionally -20 degrees and frequently 28 degrees Fahrenheit).
• Learn product variability, perishability, safety and sanitation procedures, and department policies.
• Perform basic math (add, subtract, divide, and multiply) and compute weights and measures.
• Perform primary duties with efficiency and accuracy.
• Wear hats, hairnets, gloves, and other personal protective equipment as required.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Food Handlers Certification (per State Laws).

Machines and Equipment Operated

• Scales, knives, band saws, meat tenderizers, meat slicers, grinders, wrapping machines, cubers, pallet jacks, hand trucks, bailer, and compactor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Retail meat cutting experience.
• Participation in or completion of a culinary training or education program or equivalent experience.

Pay

USD $21.82 - USD $26.60 per hour.