Meat Cutter - Lead - Lake Orion, MI

Meijer; Lake Orion (MI); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement and career growth

Job summary

Meijer in Lake Orion is looking for a Meat Cutter – Lead who is passionate about guiding others and ensuring exceptional customer experiences. This full-time role involves mentoring team members, providing operational direction, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards.

You will lead by example and promote a supportive environment that values excellent service. Benefits include weekly pay and comprehensive healthcare.

Qualifications

• Passion for customer service with total engagement.
• Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and support to your team in daily operations.
• Communicate and assign daily work tasks.
• Mentor and coach team members to exceed customer service goals.
• Monitor execution of rotation and dating policies for product freshness.
• Guide compliance with food safety standards.

Skills

Customer service engagement

Retail experience

Excellent communication skills

Ability to influence others

Job description

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Are you someone who thrives on guiding others, setting the tone for excellence, and making a real impact every day? The Meat Cutter – Lead role is your opportunity to take that first step into leadership. You'll lead by example—delivering exceptional customer experiences and inspiring your peers to do the same.

Required: Must be an experienced Meat Cutter or Meat Cutter Apprentice.

In this leadership position, you'll provide direction and support to your team, helping shape daily operations and drive department success. You will provide direction related to operations, processes, and conditions in Meat Department. The Lead plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department. You'll lead by example—delivering exceptional customer experiences and inspiring your peers to do the same. Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.

This full-time role offers weekly pay, comprehensive healthcare benefits, a team member discount, and support for continuing education!

What you'll be doing:

• Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
• Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
• Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
• Supports training new team members/cross‑training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
• Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
• Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
• Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
• Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
• Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
• Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
• Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.
• May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
• Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
• Creative thinking skills.
• Ability to influence others.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product.
• Experience executing plans.
• Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
• A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.