Meat Cutter

Houchens Food Group•Gallatin, TN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for meat operation including but not limited to preparing, storing, cutting, cleaning, and serving meat. This role involves monitoring food distribution, ensuring guidelines are followed, and maintaining cleanliness of dishes, equipment, and facilities. The Meat Cutter is responsible for stocking and maintaining coolers, cases, and displays, observing scheduled shift hours, and providing friendly, courteous, and prompt service to all customers. Key responsibilities include managing shrink, accurately recording work hours, verifying time tickets, and monitoring food preparation and serving. The position also assists in maintaining accurate bookkeeping for meat purchases, controlling shrink through inventory and ordering, and assisting in inventorying products before prepaying meat orders. Additionally, the Meat Cutter assists the Meat Manager in conducting four-week period meat inventories, ensuring proper product rotation upon receipt and stocking, verifying that meat coolers and cases are operating at the proper temperature, and ensuring that proper safety procedures are followed. Maintaining the cleanliness of the meat department, coolers, cases, and equipment is also a core function.

Requirements

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
1+ years meat cutting in a retail setting
Basic Computer Skills

Nice To Haves

Accountability
Adaptability
Autonomy
Communication, Oral
Creative
Customer Oriented
Detail Oriented
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Friendly
Motivation
Organized
Patience
Presentation Skills
Reliability
Self-Motivated
Time Management
Working Under Pressure

Responsibilities

Prepare, store, cut, clean, and serve meat.
Monitor food distribution and ensure guidelines are followed.
Clean and sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, and facilities.
Maintain coolers, cases, and displays by keeping them stocked.
Observe scheduled shift hours as assigned.
Provide friendly, courteous, and prompt service to customers.
Maintain good communication with the meat manager.
Share responsibility for controlling shrink.
Properly record all hours worked and verify time ticket reports.
Monitor food preparation and serving.
Assist in recording and maintaining accurate bookkeeping systems for weekly and monthly meat purchases.
Assist in maintaining proper records to control shrink through inventory and ordering.
Assist in inventorying all products on hand before prepaying a meat order.
Assist Meat Manager in taking a four-week period meat inventory.
Ensure that product is being rotated when received and stocked.
Ensure that all meat coolers and meat cases are running at the proper temperature.
Ensure that proper safety procedures are being used.
Properly clean and maintain the meat department, coolers, cases, and equipment.