About KTA Super Stores
We owe our century of existence entirely to the people of Hawai‘i Island. From our modest beginnings in a 500-square-foot store in 1916, KTA Super Stores and our associates remain deeply rooted in a single, quiet philosophy: to humbly serve the community that sustains us.
Core Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of a Meat Wrapper is to ensure customer satisfaction by properly packing, wrapping, pricing, and displaying various fresh and frozen meat, pork, and poultry products, while following Department of Health sanitation guidelines and providing courteous, pleasant, and patient service.
• Packing & Merchandising: Pack, wrap, price, and merchandise all Meat Department products quickly and efficiently. Fill and maintain product quantity and quality in showcases.
• Inventory & Quality Control: Rotate products by date to prevent outdated and spoiled merchandise. Reduce or remove merchandise that is nearing or has reached its expiration date.
• Sanitation & Department Care: Clean shelves and change matting in self-service showcases. Sweep sales floor areas fronting showcases, refill meat trays/containers, and assist with monthly inventory.
• Customer & Team Engagement: Promptly and efficiently greet, thank, offer assistance to, and meet customer needs with local warmth and hospitality. Answer incoming phone calls, engage in suggestive selling, and make PA announcements.
Working Conditions & Physical Demands
• Environment: Continuously work in a chilled room that may be wet, noisy, cold, and have a strong smell of raw meat and seafood. Occasionally work on the sales floor to display products.
• Physical Effort: Continuously stand, walk, handle items, use fine finger dexterity, corrected vision, depth perception, eye-hand coordination, color vision, and a wide field of vision. Frequently bend and squat to handle meat trays and store merchandise, and lift/carry up to 40 lbs when wrapping and pricing products. Occasionally reach to stack foam trays and push/pull up to 80 lbs using a meat dolly. Seldom climb ladders or work at other store locations.
• Equipment Use: Frequently operate meat trays, meat dollies, and wrapping and pricing machines. Occasionally use telephones. Seldom use brooms, dustpans, case cutters, scissors, pricing guns, or ladders.
• Safety Equipment: Continuously wear a back support belt while performing job duties
Benefits & Work Culture
• Flexible work scheduling.
• Comprehensive on-the-job training.
• Health, dental, vision, paid time off, and retirement options for eligible associates.
Notice to Applicants: This document is a summary job posting intended for public recruitment and outline purposes only. Upon hire, associates are required to review, sign, and adhere to the official internal KTA Super Stores Job Description and company standards for this position.
Equal Employment Opportunity
KTA Super Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, arrest/court record, or any other protected class under Hawaii law. Pay differentials are strictly based on seniority, merit, production, or bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs).
Qualifications
What You Bring
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Age Restrictions:
• Must be at least 16 years of age to work in a walk-in freezer or chill box, and use a case cutter and knife.
• Must be at least 18 years of age to clean, maintain, or operate power-driven equipment (e.g., band saw, hamburger machine, meat grinder, meat slicer, bone duster, meat tenderizer, automatic wrapper, freight elevator, trash baler).
• Must be at least 18 years of age, hold a valid Driver License, and receive company certification to operate a forklift.
• Skills & Knowledge: Basic math skills for calculating quantities/prices and reducing prices, multi-tasking skills, oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work under minimal or no supervision.
• Experience: Knowledge of various cuts of meat and pork is preferred.
• Work Habits: Self-motivated, responsible self-manager, detail-oriented, punctual, team-oriented, and able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure or during frequent interruptions.
• Availability: General availability 7 days a week, including holidays, between 5:00 AM and 6:00 PM.
• Note: In accordance with Hawaii Revised Statutes § 378-2.4, KTA Super Stores does not ask for or rely on an applicant's salary history to determine starting pay.
