Meat Apprentice
About The Position
The Meat Cutter Apprentice performs meat cutting and preparation, stocking, and product rotation duties while creating an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. The role helps maintain a safe, clean environment, assists the department manager in meeting sales and profit goals, and monitors established quality assurance standards. The apprentice demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. This position involves learning retail meat-cutting techniques, serving customers, maintaining meat displays, receiving and processing shipments, and operating department equipment. It requires compliance with food-safety, sanitation, and workplace safety procedures. The position is part time at the Cash Saver Store 752CS in Cleveland, Oklahoma, and reports to the Meat Manager.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Effective interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Friendly, approachable, outgoing demeanor and ability to work as a team player.
- Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
- Basic math skills, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to stand for long periods.
- Ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including frequent lifting and carrying of 30 to 95 pounds, pushing or pulling objects weighing 150 to 2,000 pounds, reaching, kneeling, bending or stooping, squatting, standing, turning, walking on uneven ground or wet surfaces, and extended exposure to temperatures of 28–32 degrees; occasional ladder climbing and lifting or carrying more than 100 pounds.
- This position requires no travel.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate teamwork and promote trust and respect among associates.
- Welcome customers, answer questions about products, escort customers to items, and thank them for their business.
- Learn department products and answer questions or make product and recipe suggestions.
- Learn and demonstrate retail cutting techniques, including sawing, boning, cutting, trimming, grinding, weighing, tying, and wrapping.
- Meet daily production needs and quality standards by following cutting lists and completing work within allotted time.
- Communicate with customers about meat and seafood specials and offer samples.
- Provide customers with fresh or frozen products in the correct portion sizes or as close as possible to amounts ordered to prevent shrink.
- Operate department equipment according to company guidelines.
- Maintain the meat case by following the merchandising plan, restocking, rotating products, and removing outdated products.
- Receive and process meat shipments; verify products, invoices, and logs, meet quality standards, follow security protocol, and rotate cooler products properly.
- Clean and sanitize equipment, cases, work areas, and the sales floor using required personal protective equipment; break down equipment according to procedures.
- Follow and reinforce food-safety, sanitation, and safety regulations and procedures; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
- Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals and monitor established quality assurance standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
