Meat Cutter

Meat Cutter

Houchens Food Group, Inc.

Department: Meat

Job Status: Full Time

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Meat Manager

Amount of

Travel Required:

No travel required

Work Schedule: Flexible

Positions Supervised: None

Responsible for meat operation including but not limited to preparing, storing, cutting, cleaning, and serving meat.

• Monitor food distribution and ensure that guidelines are followed.
• Clean and sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, and facilities.
• Maintain coolers, cases and displays by keeping them stocked.
• Observe scheduled shift hours as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
• Give all customers friendly, courteous, and prompt service.
• Maintain good communication with the meat manager.
• Share responsibility for controlling shrink.
• Properly record all hours worked. Verify and sign the time ticket report.
• Monitor food preparation and serving.
• Assist in recording and maintaining accurate bookkeeping systems as far as weekly meat purchases and monthly meat purchases.
• Assist in maintaining proper record to control shrink through inventory and ordering.
• Assist in inventorying all products on hand before prepaying a meat order.
• Assist Meat Manager in taking a four-week period meat inventory.
• Ensure that product is being rotated when received and stocked.
• Ensure that all meat coolers and meat cases are running at the proper temperature.
• Ensure that proper safety procedures are being used.
• Properly clean and maintain meat department, coolers, cases and equipment.

• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
• Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Creative - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Energetic - Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
• Enthusiastic - Ability to bring energy to the performance of a task.
• Friendly - Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
• Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Patience - Ability to act calmly under stress and strain, and of not being hasty or impetuous.
• Presentation Skills - Ability to effectively present information publicly.
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)

No prior experience necessary

Basic Computer Skills.

• Lift / Carry
• Stand: 10 lbs or less – Frequently (F)
• Walk: 11-20 lbs – Frequently (F)
• Sit: 21-50 lbs – Frequently (F)
• Handling / Fingering: 51-100 lbs – Not Applicable
• Reach Outward:
  Over 100 lbs – Not Applicable
• Reach Above Shoulder:
  Occasionally (O)
• Climb:
  Not Applicable
• Crawl:
  Not Applicable
• Squat or Kneel:
  Not Applicable
• Bend:
  Occasionally (O)
• Push / Pull: 12 lbs or less – Occasionally (O)
• 13-25 lbs – Occasionally (O)
• 26-40 lbs – Occasionally (O)
• 41-100 lbs – Occasionally (O)

Prepared by: ____________________________ Date: _______________________________

Approval Signature: ___________________________ Date: ____________________________

Approval: ___________________________________

Approval: ___________________________________

EOE

Seniority Level: Entry level

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Function: Management and Manufacturing

Industries: Retail