Part-Time Meat Cutter at Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp in Alexandria, Virginia

Job Description:

Meat Cutter

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Has ability to recognize and cut all varieties of fresh beef, pork, chicken, veal, and lamb. Handles food in a safe manner and ensures neatness of department. Grinds, slices, and tenderizes meat, rotates stock, stocks cases, and places product 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.

• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.