Meat Dept at Wards Supermarket Inc – Gainesville, Florida

Summary: A Meat Butcher / Meat Counter person is responsible for maintaining outstanding customer service and ensuring that the meat, poultry, pork and seafood cases are well stocked and pleasingly presented.

Responsibilities: May be responsible for some or all of the following.

• Responsible for receiving, storing, wrapping, weighing, pricing, merchandising and rotation of meat department products. Cuts, trims, bones, ties, and grinds meats to portion and prepare meats, seafood, poultry and pork in cooking form.
• Cuts, trims, and bones carcass sections or prime cuts to reduce to cooking cuts such as roasts, steaks, chops, stew cubes, and grinding meat.
• Cuts and weighs steaks and chops for individual servings.
• Operates and tends electric grinder to grind meat
• Operates meat wrapping equipment to prepare meat products for display and sale.
• Responsible for rotating and stocking meat cases to ensure top quality and appropriate variety of meat products to meet customer demands.
• Responsible for maintaining meat department in a clean and sanitary condition, per standards.
• Responsible for following all posted dress and grooming standards, including no beards, and must wear hat, hair net, hair in pony tail and gloves when packing ready to eat items.
• Regular use of knives, meat cutters, saws, skewer, meat grinder, cleavers, band saw and scales.

Competencies:

Customer service - manages difficult or emotional customer situations; responds promptly to customer needs.

Attendance/Punctuality - is consistently at work and on time; commits to long hours of work when necessary (8 or more hours) standing on their feet.

Physical Requirements:

Regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds

Work Environment:

Employee spends time in the back stock cooler (40 degrees) and freezer (negative 20 degrees).