Meat Wrapper

Wraps, weighs, prices, labels, and displays meat properly. Fills display cases. Maintains cleanliness of department and equipment. Ensures customer service, product quality, freshness, safety, and selection.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed customer service goals.
• Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints; reports issues to the Meat Manager or Store Director as appropriate.
• Promotes Albertson’s philosophy of personalized service and maintains an atmosphere of fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
• Weighs, wraps, prices, and labels poultry and meat products.
• Follows laws and Company policy on weighing, labeling, code-dating, and handling of reworked and reduced-to-clear items.
• Assists with receiving and breaking down loads; organizes and rotates product in cooler, organizes storage areas, and refrigerates products immediately.
• Checks for product quality and quantity; ensures compliance with Company policies and federal/state regulations on handling, storage, and temperatures.
• Transports wrapped product from work area to display cases; maintains and stocks display cases, controls shrink, and pulls out-of-code-date items.
• Ensures proper merchandising, signing, inventory level, and eye-appeal of the department.
• May perform limited cutting duties for training purposes and occasionally work in the butcher block.
• Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheets and other required paperwork.
• Maintains and organizes meat department cooler and freezer; ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, meat deli, butcher block cases, work areas, cooler, freezer, equipment, and retail cases.
• Ensures product packaging, labeling, rotation, and wrapping standards are met.
• Implements schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures, and monitors product flow; complies with retail labeling laws and regulations.
• Complies with all federal, state, and local health, food handling, and safety standards.
• Assists customers by taking and filling special orders, making product suggestions, and engaging in suggestive selling.
• Makes intercom announcements and responds to incoming calls appropriately.
• Performs all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately, and with honesty and integrity.
• Performs other necessary and required duties.

Skills and Physical Requirements

• Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful, and maintain composure when dealing with customers and co-workers.
• Ability to communicate orally and read and follow written work assignments.
• Good understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures.
• Ability to judge and react to business activity.
• Knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, food safety, sanitation, labeling, and department policies and procedures.
• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks, and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs.
• Bends, stoops, and reaches frequently; occasionally climbs ladders.
• Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks, high boys, and pallet jacks.
• Performs repetitious arm movements to package, weigh, and wrap products.
• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
• Mental alertness to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
• Knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures.
• Knowledge of taste, content, and perishability of products, safety, and sanitation procedures.
• Operates scales, meat wrapping machines, computer software, and electronic ordering devices to input price, weights, order inventory, and print labels.
• Utilizes knives, scrapers, cutting and wrapping equipment, cleaning supplies, and safety gloves.
• Good attendance is required; may be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays with scheduled hours varying.
• Exposure to potential hazards with cutting equipment and other work aids necessary to perform job duties.

Work Environment

• Hands are frequently exposed to moisture while handling and stocking poultry, meat, fish, and other fresh products.
• Ability to work for prolonged periods in an environment ranging from 40° to 50° Fahrenheit.
• Hands are frequently exposed to 30° Fahrenheit while handling product in display cases.
• Exposure to 28° Fahrenheit while handling products in the cooler and -20° Fahrenheit while handling products in the freezer.
• Working conditions consist of a temperature-controlled store environment.
• This is a safety-sensitive position with job responsibilities that could affect the safety or health of the employee or others.