Part Time Meat Cutter - SHOPPERS Food (Contee - MD) at Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp in Laurel, Maryland

Job Description:

Meat Cutter

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Has the ability to recognize and cut all varieties of fresh
beef, pork, chicken, veal, and lamb. Safely handles food and ensures neatness of the department.
Grinds, slices, and tenderizes the meat, rotates stock, stocks cases, and places products in the coolers and freezers.
Experience or Training Required: Passing a Company-provided block test.
Primary Responsibilities
• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all
customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee's
designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Assists customers by: (examples include)
• escorting them to the products they're looking for
• securing products that are out of reach.
• loading or unloading heavy items
• making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests
• performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Ensures appropriate stocking of fresh and smoked meat/pork/poultry cases, coolers, and freezers by
rotating and replenishing product.
• Cuts and trims fresh meat.
• Weighs, dates, labels and wraps fresh meat.
• Slices hams and other approved boneless, smoked items.
• Tenderizes beef or pork using cuber machine.
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and
neat.
Skills and Abilities
• The ability to work for prolonged periods of time in refrigerated and frozen levels of temperatures.
• The ability to work in an environment with continuous high noise levels.
• Must be able to safely operate a power saw, box cutter, meat cutting knife, cuber, slicer, wrapper, and
all cleaning equipment found in the meat department.
• Must have the ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions.
• Ability to do simple addition and subtraction, copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying
information; request supplies orally or in writing.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with depth perception,
color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color), and field of vision.
• Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays