Meat Wrapper La Grande Oregon

Albertsons•La Grande, OR

17d•Onsite

About The Position

Position Purpose: Wraps, weighs, prices, labels and displays meat properly. Fills display cases. Maintains cleanliness of department and equipment. Ensures customer service and product quality, freshness, safety and selection. Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities : 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. Maintains and encourages an atmosphere of fast, friendly, courteous customer service. Weighs, wraps, prices and labels poultry and meat products. Follows laws and Company policy on weighing, labeling, code-dating and the handling of reworked and reduced-to-clear items. Assists with the receiving and breaking down of loads. Organizes and rotates product in cooler, organizes storage areas and refrigerates products immediately. Checks for quality and quantity. Maintains product quality by ensuring compliance with Company policies and federal and state regulations on handling, storage and temperatures. Transports wrapped product from work area to display cases. Maintains and stocks display cases. Controls shrink. Pulls out of code date. Ensures proper merchandising, signing, inventory level and eye-appeal of department. May perform limited cutting duties for training purposes only. May occasionally work in the butcher block. 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, meat deli and butcher block cases, work areas, cooler, freezer, equipment and retail cases. Ensures that product packaging, labeling, rotation and wrapping standards are met. Ensures proper merchandizing 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. 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. Makes intercom announcements. 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.

Requirements

Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
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 package, weigh and wrap 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 scales, meat wrapping machine, computer software and electronic ordering devices to input price, weights, order and inventory and print labels.
Utilizes knives, scrapers 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.

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.
Maintains and encourages an atmosphere of fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
Weighs, wraps, prices and labels poultry and meat products.
Follows laws and Company policy on weighing, labeling, code-dating and the handling of reworked and reduced-to-clear items.
Assists with the receiving and breaking down of loads.
Organizes and rotates product in cooler, organizes storage areas and refrigerates products immediately.
Checks for quality and quantity.
Maintains product quality by ensuring compliance with Company policies and federal and state regulations on handling, storage and temperatures.
Transports wrapped product from work area to display cases.
Maintains and stocks display cases.
Controls shrink.
Pulls out of code date.
Ensures proper merchandising, signing, inventory level and eye-appeal of department.
May perform limited cutting duties for training purposes only.
May occasionally work in the butcher block.
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, meat deli and butcher block cases, work areas, cooler, freezer, equipment and retail cases.
Ensures that product packaging, labeling, rotation and wrapping standards are met.
Ensures proper merchandizing 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.
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.
Makes intercom announcements.
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.