Meat Cutter - Full or Part Time

Ridley’s Family Markets • Winnemucca, NV

19d

About The Position

The Meat Cutter supports the meat department by providing courteous customer service, maintaining effective working relationships, and following company policies and regulatory standards. The role involves learning and applying proper receiving, invoice processing, refrigeration, pricing, and temperature-control procedures; developing product knowledge; and cutting, processing, rotating, and merchandising meat and seafood according to company standards. The position may also involve ordering and inventory duties as directed by the Meat Manager, and functioning as a fishmonger as needed. This role requires use of meat-processing equipment and the physical ability to frequently lift or move up to 90 pounds.

Requirements

• At least 18 years old.
• High school diploma or GED, or related job experience, training, or schooling in the seafood and meat industry.
• Basic computer skills.
• Basic math skills, including working with money, weights, measurements, volume, and percentages.
• Ability to understand gross projections, invoices, transfers, labor goals, inventory, and other assigned paperwork.
• Ability to write, speak, hear, and understand spoken language to respond to pages and requests from team members and guests.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and operating and maintenance manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense to written, oral, or diagram-form instructions and help resolve team member or guest concerns.
• Ability to perform regular walking, standing, sitting, twisting, bending, and repetitive hand and arm activities; occasional stooping, crouching, kneeling, crawling, and climbing step stools or ladders; and frequent lifting or moving of up to 90 pounds.
• Ability to use or operate meat saws, knives, grinders, cubing machines, wrapping machines, slicers, scales, box cutters, two-wheelers, pallet jacks, and related equipment.
• City, county, state, and/or federal certifications may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a meat cutter is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide friendly, courteous customer service and respond to guests’ questions about meat, fish, and seafood products, ingredients, preparation, related products, and preparation equipment.
• Promote department and store morale through professional, honest, and open communication, and maintain good working relationships with other department managers.
• Comply with company policies, programs, directives, and Code of Conduct requirements.
• Learn and follow company and regulatory standards for receiving, invoice processing, refrigeration, pricing, and temperature ranges in cases and processing areas.
• Learn to order products and maintain product and supply inventories as directed by the Meat Manager.
• Identify, cut, process, rotate, and merchandise meat products according to company standards, including maintaining grinds to standard.
• Function as a fishmonger as needed, including handling, gutting, boning, filleting, rotating, and merchandising seafood products.
• File, rotate, and merchandise products in display cases and coolers.
• Operate required equipment and handle related paperwork as assigned by store management.

What This Job Offers

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