Meat Cutter

Maintain desired level of fresh meat production. Ensure customer service, product quality, freshness and selection. Maintain cleanliness of department and equipment. Performs other related work. Generally works 6-8 hour shifts between 5:00 am and 11:00 pm.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve and thank customers. Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis of taking care of the customer.
• Cuts, grinds, and wraps fresh meat products according to related quantity, quality and freshness standards.
• Ensures trim specifications are followed and proper temperatures are maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage.
• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
• Stocks and rotates product.
• Prevents shrink and controls expenses.
• Prevents sale of spoiled and/or outdated product by following legal regulations and company policy on weighing, labeling, code dating and the processing of re-worked or reduced-to-clear items.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product, signing, inventory level in retail cases, and eye-appeal of the department.
• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of work area, equipment, cutting room and retail cases according to company policy and the law.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed.

Experience:

• Cutting meat or performing similar work in a meat production environment.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Food Handlers Certification

Preferred Education, Experience and/or Credentials:

• Retail meat cutting experience
• Participation in or completion of culinary training or education program or equivalent experience