Meat Cutter

HOUCHENS FOOD GROUP, INC.

Department: Meat
Job Status: Full Time
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Meat Manager
Grade/Level: [not provided]
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.
• Responsible for assisting 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.
• Responsible for assisting 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.

• Competency Statement(s):
• 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 Skills.

• Lift / Carry
• Stand (Frequently) 10 lbs or less
• Walk (Occasionally) 11‑20 lbs
• Sit (Occasionally) 21‑50 lbs
• Handling/Fingering (Frequently) 51‑100 lbs
• Reach Outward (Frequently) Over 100 lbs
• Reach Above Shoulder (Occasionally)
• Push / Pull - 12 lbs or less (Occasionally)
• Push / Pull - 13‑25 lbs (Occasionally)
• Push / Pull - 26‑40 lbs (Occasionally)
• Push / Pull - 41‑100 lbs (Occasionally)
• Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 – 2.5+ hrs/day)
• Occupation requires this activity from 33% – 66% of the time (2.5 – 5.5+ hrs/day)
• Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)

EOE