Meat Department Manager

Defense Commissary Agency • Fort Belvoir, VA

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About The Position

The Meat Department Manager orders, receives, cuts and processes, stores, displays, prices, and accounts for meat products purchased for resale. The role directs department activities and provides administrative and technical supervision to meatcutters, meat cutting workers, and other personnel. It forecasts product demand and ensures meat is properly trimmed, sorted, cut, packaged, rotated, priced, and attractively displayed, with adequate supplies of processed and vendor-packaged meats to meet customer demand.

The manager uses the DeCA automated cutting test program to establish prices, make price changes, prepare price and cost/mark-up lists, and perform inventory. The role also designs or resets promotional and seasonal displays; maintains neat, orderly, sanitary processing areas, display cases, and storage rooms in compliance with sanitation and safety regulations; inspects equipment and initiates maintenance; and ensures safe practices when using power tools, knives, and grinding equipment.

Most work takes place in a well-lit store display area maintained at a comfortable temperature. The job may involve exposure to cold receiving, storage, and processing areas and refrigerated rooms, as well as risks of injury from electric meat-processing equipment, lifting heavy products, or wet floors. Physical requirements include handling products weighing up to 40 pounds unassisted and occasionally more than 40 pounds with assistance, and standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, and climbing for prolonged periods.

The position is recruited at GS-08 and GS-10. The GS-08 role may be eligible for noncompetitive promotion to GS-10 when requirements are met; promotion is not guaranteed. Occasional overtime may be required. A mobility agreement is required, direct deposit is mandatory, and the position may be subject to a suitability determination, security-clearance eligibility requirements, and probationary periods. PCS is authorized. Recruitment and relocation incentives are not offered.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national.
• Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
• Must meet suitability or fitness requirements and be able to obtain and maintain security-clearance eligibility based on an appropriate background investigation.
• Must meet the position's physical requirements.
• Must sign a Mobility Agreement upon accepting a job offer.
• Must use direct deposit for pay.
• Must meet time-in-grade and time-after-competitive-appointment requirements when applicable.
• For GS-08: one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-06; or 1.5 years of qualifying graduate-level education; or a qualifying combination of experience and education.
• For GS-10: one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-08; or 2.5 years of qualifying progressively higher graduate-level education; or a qualifying combination of experience and education.
• Specialized experience includes knowledge of retail procurement and distribution; retail food merchandising and store management; and commercial retail food items, equipment, and practices.
• Qualifying experience may include managing a commissary, supermarket, or similar retail food store; managing a retail food department; planning or controlling operations for retail food stores; developing or applying retail food store policies and standards; or providing technical advice on merchandising and operations.
• Education used to qualify must provide knowledge and ability relevant to the work, evidenced by on-the-job training, an internship, or a practicum in food retail management; transcripts are required when relying on education.
• Must be able to lift, push, pull, carry, and handle products weighing up to 40 pounds unassisted and occasionally over 40 pounds with assistance, and stand, stoop, kneel, bend, and climb for prolonged periods.
• Must meet the applicable 52 weeks of federal service requirement for time-in-grade: GS-08 requires service at or equivalent to GS-06; GS-10 requires service at or equivalent to GS-08.
• Current federal civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since selection for a qualifying non-temporary appointment, when applicable.

Responsibilities

• Direct department activities and provide administrative and technical supervision to meatcutters, meat cutting workers, and other personnel.
• Forecast product demand.
• Ensure resale meats are trimmed, sorted, cut, packaged, rotated, priced, and attractively displayed.
• Maintain adequate supplies of processed and vendor-packaged meats to meet customer demand.
• Use the DeCA automated cutting test program to establish prices, make price changes, prepare price and cost/mark-up lists, and perform inventory.
• Design or reset promotional and seasonal displays.
• Ensure processing areas, display cases, and storage rooms are neat, orderly, sanitary, and compliant with sanitation and safety regulations.
• Inspect equipment and initiate required maintenance.
• Ensure personnel follow safety practices when using power tools, knives, grinding equipment, and other equipment.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package is available, subject to position type and eligibility.
• PCS is authorized, subject to applicable conditions; eligible employees may qualify for a Relocation Income Tax Allowance for additional taxes on taxable travel income.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed