Meat Apprentice (60680)

HOMELAND STORES • Del City, OK

7d • $15 - $0 • Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Cutter Apprentice is responsible for performing meat cutting and preparation, meat stocking, and rotation duties. The role focuses on creating an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service, maintaining a safe and clean environment, and assisting the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals while adhering to quality assurance standards. The position also requires demonstrating the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

• Effective interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Friendly, approachable, and outgoing demeanor/team player
• Sound judgement/decision making skills
• Basic math skills (counting, addition, and subtraction)
• Attention to detail
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Lifting of items up to 50 lbs.

Nice To Haves

• Passion for food
• Love providing top level customer service
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate teamwork and promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Demonstrate sincerity, patience and respect in all customer interactions, escort customers to products they’re looking for and thank them for their business.
• Gain/maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and respond to questions/make suggestions about products/recipes.
• Learn retail cutting techniques; demonstrate proficiency in sawing, boning, cutting, trimming, grinding, weighting, trying and wrapping techniques.
• Meet daily production needs and quality meat cutting standards; follow daily cutting lists and complete work in allotted time.
• Effectively communicate with customers and inform them of meat and seafood specials; offer samples to help customers discover new items/products.
• Provide customers with fresh/frozen products that they have ordered in the correct portion size (or as close as possible to the amount ordered) to prevent shrink.
• Operate equipment (e.g., meat saw, bone scraper, knives, slicer, grinder, cuber, tenderizer, bulker, scales, pallet jack, flatbed, racks, wrapping machine, intercom, telephone) according to company guidelines.
• Maintain the meat case; follow the merchandising plan, restock to maintain maximum selection, rotate product and pull outdated product.
• Receive and process meat shipments correctly; verify product, invoice and logs match, ensure quality standards, follow security protocol and rotate cooler properly.
• Clean/sanitize equipment cases, work area and sales floor utilizing personal protective equipment (e.g., rain suit, metal mesh gloves); breakdown equipment per procedures.
• Comply with and reinforce all food safety, sanitation and safety regulations/guidelines/procedures and programs according to company, local, state and federal health code regulations; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.

Benefits

• Employee-owned company
• Ownership journey
• Offer quality food choices
• Support local farmers and producers
• Develop and reinvest in our employee owners
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED