Meat Quality Control

Responsibilities

• Inspect fresh meat shipments coming into the warehouse for quality, freshness and weights, dates.
• Perform outlined quality control inspections, as needed, on fresh beef and pork to insure adherence to specifications.
• Perform daily date and rotation checks on fresh meat.
• Inspect all merchandise returned by member stores and insure proper disposition.
• Assist meat merchandising in maintaining dates and inventory accuracy, and quality specifications covering all incoming products.
• Help vendors with weekly date checks and disposition of short dated product.
• Assist meat buyers in maintaining proper rotation and accurate slotting in the warehouse.
• Help buyers as liaison between meat merchandising and warehouse.
• Organize and maintain an accurate and up-to-date record keeping system.
• Keep HACCP records accurate and up to date.

Requirements

• Have knowledge of all meat related items in meat warehouse.
• Have knowledge of warehousing.
• Able and willing to apply the team approach when working with other AWG staff departments including Meat Procurement and Meat Merchandising personnel.
• Able to conduct one's self in a business-like manner in one's relationships with other management peoples and the people with whom one associates.
• Able to function independently with little direct supervision.
• Able to accept direction of senior management and promote the best interest of AWG and it's members.
• Able to use proper judgment regarding acceptability of meat.
• Able to communicate effectively with Federal and State Inspectors, Store Managers, and other outside personnel and suppliers.
• Must have six(6) years of experience in Meat at the retail or warehouse level.
• Should have knowledge of meat items.
• Perform bending, squatting, sitting, and reaching.
• Must be able to work 12 hours when necessary.
• Must be able to stand on the floor for most of the day.
• Must be able to climb stairs.
• Must be able to lift 80 pounds above head.
• Indoors with limited outdoor tasks.
• Must be able to work in temperatures ranging from 0 to 90 F and in light noise.
• Must be alert to the safety hazards of warehouse traffic.
• Must be able to work in cramped spaces and sparse lighting.
• No specific requirements (licensing/certifications).
• None required (miscellaneous requirements).