Overview:
Join Our Team as a Festival Foods Meat Cutter!
Job Title: Meat Cutter
FLSA Status: Hourly
Reports To: Meat Manager
Are you an experienced butcher or meat cutter with a passion for meat and seafood, and delivering exceptional guest service? Do you thrive in a grocery store environment, where your craftsmanship can truly shine? If so, we invite you to bring your expertise to our Meat Department as a Meat Cutter.
Our Meat Department is central to providing high-quality, fresh meat products to our guests, helping them create memorable meals for any occasion. As a Meat Cutter, you will play a vital role in ensuring our meat offerings are prepared to perfection and meet the highest standards of quality.
Responsibilities:
What You'll Do:
As a Festival Foods Meat Cutter, you will:
* Expert Meat Cutting: Utilize your meat cutting skills to prepare all non-case ready meat products, including cutting, grinding, wrapping, and trimming, according to established standards.
* Butchery Leadership: Provide expertise and leadership on the sales floor, ensuring safety and sanitation guidelines are followed, and inventory is effectively managed within the grocery store environment.
* Culinary Knowledge: Apply your extensive knowledge as a butcher, understanding different cuts of meat and cooking techniques to assist guests and ensure the best product offerings.
* Quality and Quantity Standards: Maintain and meet quality and quantity standards by filling all service and self-service cases, including fresh, frozen, and processed products.
* Team Support: Support your teammates and contribute positively to the culture of the Meat Department.
* Drive Sales: Increase sales by focusing on the details and ensuring products are visually appealing to our guests.
* Minimize Waste: Reduce shrink by following production lists, accurate trim standards, and minimizing waste.
* Product Management: Ensure meat products are properly packaged, labeled, and stored according to company policies and procedures.
* Training: Assist in training Utility team members in grinding, sausage making, cutting for the service counter, special orders, wrapping, and filling products.
* Cleanliness and Safety: Lead by example in maintaining the cleanliness of the department, including the operation, maintenance, and sanitization of equipment.
* Guest Services: Provide excellent service at the meat counter, offering expert knowledge and attentively assisting guests with their needs.
* Special Orders: Collect and fulfill special orders and requests in a timely manner.
* Teamwork: Perform other duties as needed to support the team.
* Honor Commitments: Regular, timely attendance in compliance with the work schedule, and adequate notice to find a replacement for occasional absences.
What We're Looking For:
To succeed as a Festival Foods Meat Cutter, you should have:
* Experience: Proven experience as a butcher or in meat cutting within a grocery store, retail, or meat production setting.
* Customer Focus: Ability to deal tactfully and effectively with guests and all personnel.
* Communication Skills: Good oral and written communication skills.
* Product Knowledge: Knowledge of perishable foods, particularly meat.
* Age Requirement: Must be over the age of 18.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
* The physical demands and work environment described below are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
* Stand in one place for a long period of time, bend, stoop, and kneel regularly
* Lifting up to 60 pounds on an occasional basis
* May be exposed to extreme temperatures
Work Schedule:
The Meat Cutter position can be part-time or full-time. The work schedule may include mornings, afternoons, weekends, and holidays, with flexibility to work evenings or overnight as needed.
Are you ready to showcase your meat cutting skills and contribute to a team committed to excellence in a grocery store environment?
Apply now and become a key player in our Meat Department!
Qualifications:
Job Title: Meat Cutter
FLSA Status: Hourly
Reports To: Meat Manager
Responsible for working closely with all Meat Department associates to ensure that department goals are being obtained and guest needs are being met.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* Prepares all non-case ready meat products (cutting, grinding, wrapping, trimming) according to established standards.
* Provides expertise and leadership within sales floor, backroom operation, safety and sanitation guidelines, inventory management.
* Extensive knowledge of different cuts and cooking techniques of meat and seafood.
* Ensures all quality and quantity standards are being met. This includes filling of all cases as needed (service/self-service fresh, frozen, and processed cases).
* Supports teammates and positively contributes to the culture of the Meat Department.
* Increases sales by being fussy about the details and ensuring visually appealing products.
* Contributes to overall department goals and objectives by assisting other areas of the department as available and requested.
* Reduces shrink by following production lists, recipes, following accurate trim standards and minimizing waste.
* Ensures quality and date control standards for meat products.
* Ensures meat product is properly packaged, labeled, and stored in accordance with company policies and procedures.
* Assists in the training of the Utility team members including grinding, sausage making, cutting product for the service counter, cutting special orders, wrapping, and filling product.
* Contributes to overall cleanliness of the department while leading by example with the operation, maintenance, and sanitization of equipment.
* Provides excellent guests services by attentively assisting guest at service counter and providing expert knowledge on meat products.
* Collects special orders/ requests and completes them in a timely manner.
* Other duties as assigned.
* Regular, timely attendance in compliance with the work schedule, and adequate notice to find a replacement for occasional absences.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or
ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable the individuals with
disabilities to perform essential functions.
* Meat Cutter experience required.
* Ability to deal tactfully and effectively with guests and all personnel.
* Good oral and written communication skills.
* Knowledge of perishable foods.
* Qualified applicants must be over the age of 18.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands and work environment described below are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
* Stand in one place for a long period of time, bend, stoop, and kneel regularly
* Lifting up to 60 pounds on an occasional basis
* May be exposed to extreme temperatures
WORK SCHEDULE
The Meat Cutter is an hourly position that may be part-time or full-time. The work schedule may include mornings, afternoons, weekends, and holidays, with the flexibility to work evenings or overnight as needed
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