Meat Cutter Floater

About the Role

Assists customers and cuts meat to specifications for variety, size, quality, and trim for sale. Supports daily operations in meat and seafood departments, promoting consistent and compliant operating conditions to increase customer confidence and loyalty. Provides fresh products, courteous service, and executes merchandising plans while maintaining product levels, shrink, and sales trends. Values diversity and fosters an inclusive environment.

Responsibilities

• Service (60% of time):
  • Creates a welcoming environment for customers to increase loyalty.
  • Prepares and packages food products, processes customer orders, and cuts/processes fresh meats, seafood, and other products to company standards.
  • Uses peak-time cutting lists to trim products as directed.
  • Properly wraps, weighs, prices, cubes, slices, and grinds meat.
  • Operates department equipment and tools.
  • Fulfills customer requests and special orders.
  • Performs duties of a meat/seafood counter clerk as needed.
• Leadership (20% of time):
  • Promotes teamwork, trust, and respect among associates.
  • Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws and company guidelines.
• Financial (10% of time):
  • Stocks and rotates products to ensure freshness and date control.
  • Restocks supplies efficiently to minimize waste and maintain low costs.
  • Receives and breaks down meat deliveries.
  • Maintains a clean, orderly, and hazard-free work area.
  • Monitors inventory and reports discrepancies.
  • Inspects products for quality and freshness, taking appropriate action.
  • Follows production planning tools and markdown processes to reduce shrink.
  • Ensures proper temperature control and documents temperature logs per policy.
• Compliance/Safety (10% of time):
  • Maintains company standards for safety, sanitation, and productivity.
  • Adheres to food safety regulations, USDA, COOL, and DOA requirements.
  • Executes product recalls and withdrawals promptly.
  • Complies with safety procedures and reports unsafe conditions to management.
  • Reports customer or employee accidents, safety risks, and illegal activity (e.g., theft, fraud).
  • Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies.
  • Cultivates a culture of safety and ensures associates receive necessary training.
  • Posts Hazardous Assessments and ensures Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available and used.
  • Reports and assists with remediation of safety hazards (e.g., lock out/tag out of equipment).
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain it.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional communication and motivational abilities.
• Knowledge of basic math.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Adequate knife handling skills and speed.
• Knowledge of cutting, traying, wrapping, and labeling.

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or GED (preferred).
• Language: English required; Spanish preferred.
• Experience: 0–3 years of relevant or supervisory experience.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

Physical Demands: Regularly required to stand, walk, use manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell, and perform repetitive movements with hands and/or feet. Frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift loads up to 70 lbs. Occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 10 ft. Pulling requirement up to 250 lbs.

Working Conditions: Exposure to indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid environments. May work with hazardous equipment, sharp objects, loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes, sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions, and other toxins.

Equipment Used: Cleaning supplies, office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, material handling equipment (racks, carts, pallet jacks), baler/compactor, hardware tools (ladder, pliers, wire cutters), ice machine, shovel, powered cutting equipment (slicers, saws, grinders), knives, wrapping equipment, automatic meat wrapper, lobster tanks, box cutter.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Goggles, gloves (including cutting gloves), fryer gloves, oven gloves, back brace.

Schedule: Varied shifts.