Meat Cutter

Meat Cutter

Job Description Focusing on providing a great customer shopping experience, the meat cutter processes high quality fresh meat, poultry, pork and fish, ensuring sales cases are full and inviting. Some job responsibilities include:

• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.
• Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling and always giving a genuine thank you.
• Ordering, cutting, grinding, slicing, weighing, wrapping and labeling according to quality, quantity, and product freshness and food safety and sanitation standards.
• Through proper handling, cutting, trimming and wrapping techniques, controls product shrink and inventory expenses.
• Selling products by providing customers with excellent and helpful product information.
• Properly using the meat department tools and equipment including knives, saws, wrapping machine, tenderizer, patty maker, grinder, while meeting meat department safety standards.
• Understanding the importance of correctly using and monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement.
• Keeping a clean, neat and orderly, and well-stocked meat counter, work areas, meat service cases and self-service cases.
• Helping with the preparation of ready to go meat products.
• Slicing, weighing and merchandising of prepared deli meats and cheeses.
• Displaying goods following deli department and/or merchandising guidelines.
• Taking customer orders, ensuring orders are completed on time and to the customer's satisfaction.
• Safety sensitive position. Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 18 years old.

Job Qualification:

• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous.
• Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.
• Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations.
• Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures.
• Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store.
• Memorize product locations.
• Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters.
• Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary.
• Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members.
• Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 50lbs.
• Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags.
• Operate manual and electric pallet jacks.
• Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers.
• If called upon, night crew clerks may need to learn use of cash registers.