Meat Cutter I / Full Time - Greenfield, OH

Save A Lot•Greenfield, OH

141d•$15 - $19•Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Cutter ensures the store’s meat department operates to company standards, drives sales, and maximizes profitability. The role delivers high-quality customer service by following the company’s meat merchandising plan and trimming and preparing standard cuts of meat according to the Meat Cutter Resource Manual. The Meat Cutter demonstrates teamwork, interpersonal skills, and commitment to team success. The position works under the direction of the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager and follows direction from the Meat Specialist. It leads the meat department’s performance, supports others through coaching and training, and carries out ordering, merchandising, productivity, and shrink-control responsibilities. The role also cuts, packages, labels, displays, and stores meat products according to company policies and applicable standards, while maintaining food safety, sanitation, quality, and customer-service expectations. Duties may include other perishable or non-perishable tasks, work in other store areas, or assignment to more than one store. Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled environment maintained at approximately 38–45 degrees. The role involves extended periods of standing, walking, or moving, and repeated reaching, bending, twisting, balancing, lifting, transporting, pushing, pulling, grasping, and sawing motions. Team members must be able to handle objects weighing up to 30 pounds repeatedly; product may occasionally weigh up to 100 pounds, and heavy product must be moved with assistance.

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, required.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Must 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.
Must have customer-service, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
Must adhere to the uniform dress code.
Must be able to reach, bend, twist, balance, lift, and transport objects weighing up to 30 pounds repeatedly; product may at times weigh up to 100 pounds.
Must be able to move heavy product with assistance.
Must be able to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.
Must be able to push, pull, grasp, and use sawing motions for extended periods.

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, preferred.
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 the performance of the meat department to achieve and exceed metric goals.
Handle product ordering, merchandising, productivity, and shrink control to meet company and business-unit goals.
Coach and train others performing meat-related tasks in the department.
Set and execute work priorities and direct the assignment of 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.
Keep displays and case signs appropriately updated 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 to maintain the cold chain and ensure product quality.
Meet and maintain daily sanitation and quality standards in accordance with company policy.
Follow and execute company policies and procedures, including COOL, food safety, sanitation, meat/produce scale operation, markdowns, 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 in other areas of the store when assigned.
Provide excellent customer service and contribute to teamwork and problem-solving.
Follow the uniform dress code.