Fish Cutter

Job Details

Job Location:

KTA Puainako Store 3 - Hilo, HI 96720, Position Type:
Part Time, Salary Range: $19.00 - $21.00 Hourly, Job Shift: Day, This is a continuous recruitment posting for ongoing hiring needs across our store locations. Applications received under this posting are reviewed regularly as openings become available.

About KTA Super Stores

We owe our century of existence entirely to the people of Hawai‘i Island. From our modest beginnings in a 500-square-foot store in 1916, KTA Super Stores and our associates remain deeply rooted in a single, quiet philosophy: to humbly serve the community that sustains us.

Core Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of a Fish Cutter is to ensure customer satisfaction by properly cutting, trimming, seasoning, and packaging various fresh and frozen seafood products while following Department of Health sanitation guidelines and delivering courteous, pleasant, and patient customer service.

Seafood Preparation & Processing:
Breakdown, cut, trim, clean, and pack fresh whole fish. Cut ingredients and season to make poke. Cut frozen seafood products.

Packaging & Merchandising:
Tray, wrap, and price seafood items for the self-service display case. Tray poke items for the service counter display case. Merchandise, straighten, refill, and rotate products across service counters and display cases.

Department Support & Inventory:
Receive, store, and process freight. Order merchandise and refill supplies (meat trays, plastic containers). Process invoices for payment and assist at other locations as needed.

Sanitation & Equipment Maintenance:
Clean seafood prep room, shelves, and racks. Maintain high sanitation standards in compliance with Department of Health regulations.

Customer & Team Engagement:
Promptly and efficiently greet, thank, offer assistance to, and meet customer needs with local warmth and hospitality. Service customers at the counter, answer incoming phone calls, and take customer orders.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

Environment:
Continuously work in a chilled room that may be wet, noisy, and extremely cold, with a strong smell of raw meat and seafood. Seldom work outdoors to receive freight or discard trash and boxes.

Physical Effort:
Continuously stand, walk, handle items, use fine finger dexterity, corrected vision, depth perception, eye-hand coordination, color vision, and a wide field of vision. Frequently lift and carry up to 150 lbs to receive freight and move product from storage to cutting tables and machines. Occasionally bend, squat, reach, and push/pull up to 250 lbs using a stock wagon. Seldom require eye-hand-foot coordination to operate a forklift.

Equipment Use:
Frequently use knives, mesh gloves, meat trays, and meat dollies. Occasionally use meat wrapping/pricing machines and scales, telephones, pallet jacks, stock wagons, cardboard balers, and cleaning solutions. Seldom operate forklifts.

Safety Gear:
Follow all safety practices and sanitation policies.

Benefits & Work Culture

• Flexible work scheduling.
• Comprehensive on-the-job training.
• Health, dental, vision, paid time off, and retirement options for eligible associates.

Notice to Applicants

This document is a summary job posting for continuous recruitment purposes only. Active openings are filled from this applicant pool on an as-needed basis. Upon hire, associates are required to review, sign, and adhere to the official internal KTA Super Stores Job Description and company standards for this position.

Equal Employment Opportunity

KTA Super Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, arrest/court record, or any other protected class under Hawaii law. Pay differentials are strictly based on seniority, merit, production, or bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs).

Qualifications:

What You Bring Age Restrictions

• Must be at least 16 years of age to work in a walk-in freezer or chill box, and use a case cutter and knife.
• Must be at least 18 years of age to clean, maintain, or operate a band saw, meat grinder, automatic wrapper, freight elevator, trash baler, or any other power-driven equipment.
• Must be at least 18 years of age, hold a valid Driver License, and receive company certification to operate a forklift.

Skills & Knowledge

Basic math skills for calculating quantities and prices to provide accurate quotes/cuts, multi-tasking skills, oral and written…