Meat Cutter

Albertsons Companies•Chandler, AZ

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Meat Cutter is responsible for maintaining the desired level of fresh meat production, ensuring the cleanliness of the department and equipment, and upholding customer service and product quality, freshness, safety, and selection standards. This role involves adhering to company and division customer service programs, handling customer relations positively, and promoting a philosophy of personalized service. The position requires receiving and breaking down loads, checking for quality and quantity, and maintaining product quality through proper storage and temperature compliance. The Meat Cutter will cut, grind, weigh, and wrap fresh meat products according to procedure, control shrink and expenses, and prevent the sale of outdated or spoiled product. Accurate completion of daily logs and other required paperwork is essential. The role also includes maintaining and organizing the meat department cooler and freezer, ensuring cleanliness and sanitation of the sales floor, work area, equipment, and retail cases. Product quality, trimming, grinding, packaging, labeling, rotation, and wrapping standards must be met. Merchandising of product, compliance with labeling laws, and handling re-worked/reduced-to-clear items according to company policy are also key responsibilities. The Meat Cutter must comply with all health, food handling, and safety standards. Assisting customers with special orders, making product suggestions, and engaging in suggestive selling are part of the customer service aspect. Answering incoming calls appropriately and performing all job duties safely, accurately, and with integrity are expected. A working knowledge of all Meat Department duties, including cutting, wrapping, steaming, grinding, cubing, tenderizing, and customer service, is required. The ability to communicate orally and read/follow written assignments, along with a good understanding of company practices and Meat Department policies, is necessary. Knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, food safety, sanitation, labeling, and department policies is crucial. The role involves frequent reaching, lifting, stacking, and maneuvering objects up to approximately 80 lbs, bending, stooping, reaching, and occasional climbing. Pushing and pulling loaded hand trucks, high boys, and pallet jacks, and performing repetitive arm movements are also part of the job. Manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, and mental alertness are necessary for safe and accurate work. Basic mathematics, weights and measures, knowledge of product taste, content, perishability, safety, sanitation, and department policies are required. The position requires operating computer software and electronic ordering devices, as well as utilizing saws, cutters, grinders, wrapping equipment, safety cutters, cleaning supplies, and safety gloves. The role may require working nights, weekends, and holidays, with varying scheduled hours and a requirement for good attendance. Exposure to potential hazards from cutting equipment and other work aids exists. Hands remain moist during most of the work time and are frequently exposed to 30° Fahrenheit while handling product in display cases. The ability to work for prolonged periods in an environment with temperatures ranging from 40° to 50° Fahrenheit is necessary. Exposure to 35° Fahrenheit in cold cases, 28° Fahrenheit in the cooler, and -20° Fahrenheit in the freezer is expected. The working conditions consist of a temperature-controlled store environment.

Requirements

Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
Requires working knowledge of all job duties within the Meat Department including cutting, wrapping, steaming, grinding, cubing, tenderizing and customer service.
Ability to communicate orally and read and follow written work assignments.
Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures.
Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, food safety, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs.
Bends, stoops and reaches frequently and occasionally climbs ladders.
Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks, high boys and pallet jacks.
Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare and package products.
Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures.
Must have knowledge of taste, content and perishability of products, safety and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.
Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to input order and inventory and print labels.
Utilizes saws, cutters, grinders and other cutting and wrapping equipment.
Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.
Utilizes safety cutters.
Requires use of safety gloves.
May be required to work nights, weekends and holidays.
Scheduled hours will vary.
Good attendance is required.
Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to cutting equipment and other work aids necessary to perform job duties.
Hands remain moist during majority of work time.
Hands are frequently exposed to 30˚ Fahrenheit while handling product in the display cases.
Requires the ability to work for prolonged period of time in an environment with a temperature range of 40˚ to 50˚ Fahrenheit.
Exposure to 35˚ Fahrenheit while handling products in cold cases, 28˚ Fahrenheit in cooler and -20˚ Fahrenheit in freezer.
Working conditions consist of a temperature controlled store environment.

Responsibilities

Adheres to Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals.
Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints and reporting to the Meat Manager or Store Director as appropriate.
Promotes Albertson's philosophy of personalized service.
Receives and breaks down loads. Checks for quality and quantity.
Maintains product quality by ensuring compliance with Company policies and federal and state regulations on storage and temperatures.
Cuts, grinds, weighs and wraps fresh meat products according to proper procedure to ensure product quality.
Controls shrink and expenses.
Prevents the sale of out of date or spoiled product.
Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheet and other required paperwork and logs.
Maintains and organizes meat department cooler and freezer.
Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, cooler, freezer, equipment and retail cases.
Ensures that product quality, trimming, grinding, packaging, labeling, rotation and wrapping standards are met.
Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow.
Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies.
Follows Company policies in pricing and handling re-worked and reduced-to-clear items.
Complies with all federal, state and local health, and food handling and safety standards.
Assists customers by taking and filling special orders.
Makes product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling.
Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately.
Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
Other necessary and required duties.