Meat Cutter, Waimea

Location: Waimea/Kamuela

The primary responsibility of a Meat Cutter is to ensure customer satisfaction by properly cutting, trimming, grinding and packaging various fresh and frozen meat, pork, and poultry products, while following the Department of Health sanitation guidelines. A Meat Cutter also increases customer loyalty by assisting all customers with courteous, pleasant, patient service and treatment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIESYou MUST perform the following duties regularly and up to company standards:

Breakdown pig, beef, and lamb carcasses into individual cuts.

Breakdown primals into individual steaks, roasts and chops with little waste or by-products.

Grind, slice and tenderize various meat, poultry and seafood products.

Do reworks which consist of by-products of lamb, beef, pork and chicken.

Tray all cut, ground, sliced, tenderized, and prepared meats for wrapping and pricing.

Cut frozen products.

Follow all safe food handling guidelines.

NON-ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIESIn order to provide the best possible service to our customers, the following duties are also required on an as-needed basis, during slow periods, or upon instruction by a supervisor, manager or designated person-in-charge.

Receive freight and store merchandise promptly and properly.

Pack, wrap, price and display merchandise.

Troubleshoot machines.

Mix sauces for marinades.

Order merchandise.

Refill supplies (meat trays, plastic containers, etc.).Answer incoming phone calls and assist the customer with their needs.

Assist with monthly inventory.

Work at other store locations.

Promptly and efficiently greet, thank, offer assistance, and meet the needs of all customers.

Perform other duties as required.

CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPECTATIONS All associates are required to provide our customers with World Class Service (with a local touch).GREET all customers (be friendly, smile and make face-to-face eye contact).HELP all customers (listen and pay attention; be courteous; be knowledgeable about product location, services offered and store hours; offer alternatives if a product is out of stock; take the customer to the product, etc.).Personalize

the customers shopping experience (make small talk, offer meal suggestions, explain current store promotions, etc.).THANK all customers (show appreciation and offer a parting comment).WORKING CONDITIONS Continuously work in a chilled room where it may be wet, noisy, and extremely cold, and with a strong smell of raw meat and seafood.

Seldom work outdoors to receive freight, and discard of trash and boxes.

WORK HOURS Generally be available for work 7 days a week and holidays between 5:00 am and 7:00 pm, depending on the store and departments hours of operation.

EQUIPMENT USE Frequently use knives, mesh glove, band saw, meat slicer, meat grinder, meat tenderizer, meat trays and dolly to perform all essential duties.

Occasionally use meat wrapping and pricing machine to prepare products for display case; telephone to order merchandise, and assist customers and co-workers with requests; hand saw to breakdown carcasses; pallet jack and stock wagon to receive freight; baler to compact cardboard boxes; cleaning solutions to perform cleaning duties; stock wagon to transport freight, boxes and trash.

Seldom use forklift to receive freight, and ladder to store and retrieve supplies from shelves and racks.

SAFETY EQUIPMENT Continuously wear a back support belt when performing all job duties.

MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND COMMUNICATION DEMANDS MENTAL Continuously need to concentrate well, be alert, and pay attention to detail to work safely, produce quality products, and provide excellent customer service; be able to work efficiently, even with frequent interruptions. Frequently need to use basic math skills to calculate quantities and prices, in order to provide accurate quotes and cuts for customers. Occasionally need to be able to remain calm, courteous and professional when handling various customer situations and complaints.

PHYSICAL Continuously need to stand, walk, handle, use fingers, have corrected vision, good depth perception, eye-hand coordination, color vision, and a wide field of vision when performing all job duties, for the safety of co-workers and customers. Frequently need to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. to receive freight, and move product from storage to cutting table and machines. Occasionally need to bend and squat to pick up boxes and debris from floor or stock wagon;

reach to stack foam trays and to retrieve products from rack; push and pull up to 1,000 lbs. to transport merchandise to storage on a stock wagon. Seldom need to have good eye-hand-foot coordination to operate forklift when receiving freight; climb and balance on ladder to store and retrieve supplies from shelves and racks; work at other locations when necessary.

COMMUNICATION Frequently need to listen, talk to, and understand supervisors, and co-workers when doing all job duties; read specials list, PLU Code List, shelf tags and signs, product case labels, special orders, and messages from co-workers.…