Meat Department Butcher/Wrapper Job

Responsibilities

• Pleasantly deal with customers to ensure satisfaction.
• Greet customers when entering or leaving department and provide answers to customer inquiries regarding meat department items.
• Engages and maintains a professional working relationship with vendors.
• Cuts, trims, and bones carcass sections or prime cuts to reduce cooking cuts such as roasts, steaks, chops, stew cubes and grinding meat.
• Knowable and capable of preparing all cuts of meat offered in an acceptable manner.
• Cuts and weighs steaks and chops for individual servings.
• Tends electric grinder to grind meat.
• Shapes and ties roasts.
• Wraps and weighs portions of meat and poultry on scales, prints item tags indicating weight, type of meat, date and price.
• Packages meat orderly in meat trays.
• Stocks and rotates meat and poultry display cases and rotates merchandise to ensure freshness and quality.
• Checks display cases to ensure freshness dates.
• Makes sausage and stuffed items.
• Provides customers with special meat cuts requested by customer.
• Estimates requirements and orders of meats and seafood supply.
• Receives, inspects and stores meat upon delivery.
• Records quantity of meat received and issued to Deli/Bakery.
• Ensures the cleanliness of the department by cleaning the meat grinder, meat saw and scale and any other pieces of machinery or surfaces in the department including all meat display cases.
• Maintains the wrapping machine in a clean and working order.
• Reports mechanical problems with any equipment through the use of Work Order Forms.
• Answers customers' questions and gets with the meat department supervisor or grocery manager if you are unable to solve the issue.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures within a particular field.
• Exercises independent judgment.
• Abides by pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to walk, use hands/arms to finger, handle, feel and reach.
• Frequent lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job and includes using peripheral vision.