Lead Meat Cutter - Shift Leader
About The Position
The Lead Meat Cutter is responsible for preparing, displaying, ordering, and maintaining meat products and inventory. The role includes cutting and processing chicken, beef, and pork; preparing Mexican meat products such as carnitas, barbacoa, and chicharrón; and ensuring product quality, accurate pricing, and a clean, sanitary, and safe work area. The Lead Meat Cutter also helps train employees, supports customer service and sales, and performs shift-leader duties when required. This position requires at least three years of experience as a lead in a meat department, basic reading and mathematics skills, familiarity with weight measurements and scales, and knowledge of Mexican meat cuts and specified meat preparations. The schedule is flexible and includes weekends and holidays.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience as a lead in a meat department.
- Ability to read at an eighth-grade level.
- Basic mathematics knowledge, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Knowledge of weight measurements.
- Ability to use a scale.
- Knowledge of Mexican meat cuts.
- Knowledge of preparing carnitas, barbacoa, and chicharrón.
- Availability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays.
Responsibilities
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind chicken, beef, pork, and other meats.
- Wrap and weigh meat for customers.
- Arrange meat in the display case.
- Estimate meat needs and order meat supplies.
- Monitor meat products and inventory.
- Receive, inspect, and store meat.
- Keep the meat market clean, sanitary, visually attractive, orderly, and free of safety hazards.
- Ensure correct prices and signs are displayed for meat market products.
- Develop, train, and guide new employees in preparing meat products, including carnitas, barbacoa, and chicharrón; prepare these products when necessary.
- Identify opportunities to sell products from other departments and use suggestive selling.
- Build professional relationships with customers to increase sales.
- Inspect and evaluate the quality of meat market products daily.
- Work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays.
- Perform shift-leader activities when required.
- Report faulty equipment and hazards to management.
- Perform other tasks assigned by the Store Manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
