Meat Cutter

WinCo Foods•Salt Lake City, UT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join us at WinCo Foods, a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States, with more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). We offer top-tier medical plans and tuition support. In this role, you will be instrumental in making a real impact in the communities we serve. The position involves maintaining the desired level of fresh meat production, ensuring customer service, product quality, freshness, and selection. It also requires maintaining the cleanliness of the department and equipment. This role generally works 6-8 hour shifts between 5:00 am and 11:00 pm.

Requirements

Experience: Cutting meat or performing similar work in a meat production environment.
Ability to: Work varied shifts in a 24/7 operation; including night, weekends and holidays.
Ability to: Perform friendly, courteous, tactful interactions and maintain composure in dealing with customer and co-workers.
Ability to: Conduct visual inspections, read production guides and product labels.
Ability to: Properly use cleaning chemicals in accordance with manufacture’s guidelines and instructions.
Ability to: Properly handle related food products per State and County laws, and WinCo standards.
Ability to: Communicate with co-workers and follow written work assignments / instructions.
Ability to: Reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs. frequently.
Ability to: Push and pull fully loaded handtrucks and pallet jacks.
Ability to: Perform repetitious arm and hand movements required to cut, slice and process meat products.
Ability to: Stand for long periods of time, walk and move rapidly, bend, twist and turn frequently.
Ability to: Perform safe/productive movements and operate related equipment with manual dexterity and hand /eye coordination.
Ability to: Work with hands exposed to moisture.
Ability to: Work for prolonged periods of time in a refrigerated area (32 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit), handling refrigerated goods (occasionally -20 degrees and frequently 28 degrees Fahrenheit).
Ability to: Learn product variability, perishability, safety and sanitation procedures, and dept. policies.
Ability to: Perform basic math (add, subtract, divide and multiply) and compute weights and measures.
Ability to: Perform primary duties with efficiency and accuracy.
Ability to: Wear hats, hairnets, gloves, and other personal protective equipment as required.
Must be 18 years of age or older.
Food Handlers Certification (Per State Laws).

Nice To Haves

Retail meat cutting experience.
Participation in or completion of culinary training or education program or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve and thank customers.
Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis of taking care of the customer.
Cuts, grinds, and wraps fresh meat products according to related quantity, quality and freshness standards.
Ensures trim specifications are followed and proper temperatures are maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage.
Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
Stocks and rotates product.
Prevents shrink and controls expenses.
Prevents sale of spoiled and/or outdated product by following legal regulations and company policy on weighing, labeling, code dating and the processing of re-worked or reduced-to-clear items.
Ensures proper merchandising of product, signing, inventory level in retail cases, and eye-appeal of the department.
Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of work area, equipment, cutting room and retail cases according to company policy and the law.
Performs other duties as assigned or needed.