MEAT/CUTTER clerk

Smith's Food & Drug Centers; Payson (UT); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Smith's Food & Drug Centers in Payson, UT is seeking a Meat Department Associate to deliver outstanding customer service and help achieve department sales goals while maintaining a safe, clean environment. You will assist the department manager in daily operations in accordance with company standards.

Responsibilities include cutting meats to customer requests with proper equipment, ensuring product freshness, stocking and labeling, answering questions, and supporting a fast-paced department.

Qualifications

• Ability to handle stressful situations (must stay calm and productive).
• Strong communication to assist customers and team members.
• Basic math skills for transactions and inventory counts.
• Current food handlers permit required after employment start date.
• Ability to safely handle knives and operate meat-cutting equipment.
• Must be at least 18 years old.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding customer service and support the department manager to meet sales goals.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized meat department environment.
• Assist customers with product questions, samples, and recommendations.
• Adhere to all safety and food-handling regulations and company policies.

Skills

Stress management

Effective communication

Basic math

Food handlers permit

Knife handling

Age requirement 18+

Job description

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1 st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Minimum

• Ability to handle stressful situations
• Effective communication skills
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
• Current food handlers permit once employed
• Possess adequate knife handling skills and knife speed
• Must be at least 18 years of age

Desired

• Meat experience
• Retail experience
• Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)
• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products.
• Cut meats to customer's requests using proper cutting equipment.
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products they inquire about.
• Inform customers of meat specials.
• Provide customers with fresh/frozen products that they have ordered and the correct portion size (or as close as possible to the amount ordered) to prevent shrink.
• Recommend meat items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
• Use all equipment in meat department such as the refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens according to company guidelines.
• Prepare food to company standards.
• Adequately prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise.
• Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action.
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise.
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Display a positive attitude.
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
• Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
• Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud.
• Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
• Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.