Meat Cutter I - Akron, OH

Save A Lot • Akron, OH

47d • $19 - $24 • Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Cutter ensures the store’s meat department operates to company standards, drives sales, and maximizes profitability. The role provides excellent customer service by following the company’s meat merchandising plan and trimming and preparing standard cuts of meat as outlined in the Meat Cutter Resource Manual. The Meat Cutter demonstrates teamwork, interpersonal skills, and commitment to the team’s success.

The position leads meat department performance, supports ordering and merchandising, and helps meet productivity, shrink, and business goals. It includes coaching and training team members, setting work priorities, assigning tasks, and enforcing department policies and procedures. The Meat Cutter may also perform other perishable and non-perishable duties, work in more than one store or area, and protect company property, funds, and merchandise.

Work is mostly performed in a temperature-controlled environment of 38–45 degrees. The role requires repeated lifting and transporting of objects up to 30 pounds, with product occasionally weighing up to 100 pounds; assistance is required to move heavy product. The job also requires standing, walking, reaching, bending, twisting, balancing, pushing, pulling, grasping, and using sawing motions for extended periods.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Proficiency in basic math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be dependable and flexible, including willingness to work in other store areas as needed with little or no advance notice.
• Excellent customer service, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• Must adhere to the uniform dress code.
• Ability to reach, bend, twist, balance, lift, transport, push, pull, grasp, and use sawing motions for extended periods.
• Ability to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.
• Ability to repeatedly lift and transport objects weighing up to 30 pounds; product may occasionally weigh up to 100 pounds.
• Must be able to move heavy product with assistance.

Nice To Haves

• One year of previous meat-cutting experience, including use of hand tools and power equipment such as knives, slicers, grinders, cubing machines, and power saws.
• Spanish or other language proficiency is a plus.
• Company work history will be strongly considered, including attendance, work performance, safety, policy compliance, and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Lead meat department performance to achieve and exceed metric goals.
• Order products, merchandise the department, support productivity, and control shrink to meet company and business unit goals.
• Coach and train others who perform meat-related tasks in the department.
• Set and execute work priorities and assign individual tasks within the meat department.
• Enforce meat policies and procedures in the assigned store.
• Use knives and power equipment to cut and package authorized beef, pork, and poultry items according to company policies and procedures.
• Update displays and case signs and present meat to maximize sales.
• Maintain proper date rotation for dated and undated products in display cases and storage coolers.
• Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counters so they appear attractive and appealing to customers.
• Wrap, weigh, and price cuts of meat.
• Label packages according to COOL, USDA, and company standards.
• Receive, inspect, and store meat deliveries while maintaining the cold chain and meat quality.
• Meet daily sanitation and quality standards and follow company policy.
• Follow and execute company policies and procedures, including COOL, Food Safety, Sanitation, Meat/Produce Scale operation, Mark Downs, Inventory Processes, Meat POGs, the Meat Cutter Resource Manual, Daily Manager Signoff, and the Meat Cutting List.
• Perform other perishable and non-perishable duties as needed to maintain store performance.
• Protect company property, funds, and merchandise.
• Work in more than one store or other areas of the store when assigned.

Benefits

• Eligible full-time Team Members or Team Members averaging 30 or more hours per week may receive health and welfare benefits.
• Paid Time Off
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Team Member Referral Program
• Wellbeing Program
• Career development opportunities

What This Job Offers

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