Meat Cutter

Ridley’s Family Markets•Spring Creek, NV

17d

About The Position

The Meat Cutter performs meat department duties while maintaining accurate work and a high level of productivity. The role supports friendly customer service, professional communication, cooperation across departments, and compliance with company policies and applicable regulatory standards. The employee learns and follows proper procedures for receiving, invoices, refrigeration, pricing, and temperature control in department cases and processing areas. The position involves learning about meat, fish, and seafood products and responding to guest questions about ingredients, preparation, related products, and equipment. As directed, the Meat Cutter may learn to order products and supplies and maintain inventory. Duties include identifying, cutting, processing, rotating, and merchandising meat; maintaining grinds to company standards; and, as needed, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, rotating, and merchandising seafood as a fishmonger. The role also includes filing, rotating, and merchandising products in display cases and coolers. The job requires basic computer and math skills, the ability to understand written and spoken instructions, and operation of specified meat department equipment. It involves frequent lifting and a range of standing, walking, bending, reaching, gripping, and other physical activities. The listed duties may be expanded by management.

Requirements

Must be 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 calculations involving money, weight, measurement, 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 words to respond promptly 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 understanding to written, oral, or diagram instructions and help resolve team member or guest concerns.
City, county, state, and/or federal certifications may be required.
Pallet jack operation.
Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 90 pounds, including floor-to-shoulder and overhead lifting.
Ability to perform physical activities including walking, standing, sitting, twisting, bending, handling and feeling with hands and fingers, repetitive use of hands and arms, pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, reaching, gripping, balancing, and occasionally stooping, crouching, kneeling, crawling, and using or climbing step stools or ladders.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a meat cutter is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide friendly, courteous customer service and respond to guest questions about meat, fish, and seafood products, ingredients, preparation, related products, and preparation equipment.
Promote department and store morale through friendly, professional, honest, and open communication.
Maintain good working relationships with other department managers to support storewide sales and teamwork.
Comply with company policies, programs, directives, and the Code of Conduct.
Learn and maintain compliance with company and government regulatory standards for meat department receiving, invoice processing, refrigeration, pricing, and temperature ranges in cases and processing areas.
Learn to order products and supplies and maintain proper inventories as directed by the Meat Manager.
Identify, cut, process, rotate, and merchandise meat products according to company standards and guidelines; maintain grinds to company standards.
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, including pallet jacks and meat department tools and machines.