Jay C Food Stores

Position Title: Meat Cutter

Department: Meat

Position Reports To: Store Management

Position Summary:

• Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage team members to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

Essential Job Functions:

• Promote trust and respect among team members with a positive attitude and create teamwork.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions.
• Inform customers of meat specials, offer samples, and slice meats to customers’ requests.
• Recommend meat items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need and correct portion.
• Use all equipment in meat department according to company guidelines.
• Prepare food to company standards.
• Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review sell by dates and take appropriate action.
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise. Adequately prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise.
• Ensure Country Of Origin Labels are correct for all meat products.
• Report product ordering and shipping discrepancies.
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
• Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines and ensure that temperatures in cases are monitored.
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained.
• Reinforce safety programs, safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
• Practice preventive maintenance and notify appropriate store management of anything in need of repair.
• Notify management of customer or team member accidents, safety risks, issues or illegal activity.
• Standing- 100 percent of the time
• Lifting- Maximum 90 pounds, Meat Cutter average is 50 pounds, Meat Clerk is 35 pound average
• Bending, twisting, turning, pushing, and pulling
• Manual dexterity- 100 percent of the time
• Tolerate cold- Meat room, freezer, and cooler
• Repetitive Motion- Hands and wrists
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Behaviors/Skills:

Some of the behaviors needed to successfully perform this position are:

Leadership Behaviors:

• Puts the Customer First - Anticipates customer needs, champions for the customer, acts with customers in mind, exceeds customers’ expectations, gains customers’ trust and respect.
• Communicates Effectively and Candidly - Communicates clearly and directly, is approachable, relates well to others, engages people and helps them understand change, provides and seeks feedback, articulates clearly, actively listens.
• Achieves Results Through Teamwork – Is open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable, involves others to accomplish individual and team goals.
• Leads Through Positive Influence – Demonstrates strong character, builds partnerships, models a conscious balance between work and personal life, takes personal responsibility for own development, role models leadership qualities such as motivation, inspiration, passion and trust.
• Coaches and Develops Others - Develops and cares about team members, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback.

• Leads Change and Innovation - Challenges the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about which ideas will work.
• Executes with Excellence - Is action oriented, drives for results, sets clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, can be counted on to consistently meet or exceed goals.
• Provides Clear and Strategic Direction - Plans and organizes well, sets a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities, has the ability to visualize and plan for the future, understands the industry and marketplace.
• Safety Awareness -Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employee safety; upholding safety standards.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Effective communication and reading skills
• Knowledge of basic math
• Current food handlers permit once employed
• Possess adequate knife handling skills and knife speed
• Must be 18 years old

Desired Previous Job Experience

• Meat experience
• Retail experience
• Second language

Potential Career Path from this position:

• Meat Manager
• Other Clerk Position

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $11.75 - $14.50 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• Grocery store

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Meat cutting: 1 year (Preferred)
• Customer service: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location