Meat Department Manager

Defense Commissary Agency; Barksdale Air Force Base (LA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Commissary Agency is seeking a Meat Department Manager in Louisiana at a military retail location. You will oversee meat department operations, including ordering, cutting, display, pricing, and inventory control, while ensuring sanitation and safety standards are met.

The role requires directing staff, forecasting demand, and maintaining promotional displays, with a schedule that includes nights, weekends, and holidays at a government facility.

Qualifications

• Transcripts required when education is used to meet qualifications or when required.
• Foreign education may be qualifying if evaluated as equivalent by a private organization or institution.
• Official transcripts required before a firm job offer.

Responsibilities

• Directing all department activities and supervising meatcutters and related staff.
• Forecasting product demand and ensuring proper trimming, packaging, and display of meats.
• Establishing prices using the DeCA pricing program and preparing price lists and inventories.
• Designing and resetting promotional and seasonal displays.
• Ensuring sanitation, safety, and orderly storage areas; maintaining equipment and enforcing safety practices.

Skills

Leadership

Forecasting

Pricing

Display merchandising

Safety compliance

Supervision

Education

Transcripts

Tools

Meat cutting equipment

DeCA automated cutting test program

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Defense Commissary Agency
• Department: Department of Defense
• Schedule: Subject to an irregular tour of duty including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Meat Department Managers order, receive, cut/process, store, display, price, and account for all meat products purchased for resale. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

Key Responsibilities

Directing all department activities and providing administrative and technical supervision for meatcutters, meat cutting workers, and other personnel engaged in the various tasks associated with Meat Department operations. Forecasting product demand. Ensuring that all resale meats are trimmed, sorted, properly cut, packaged, rotated, priced, and displayed in professional and attractive manner.

Ensuring adequate supplies of processed meats and vendor packaged meats to meet customer demand at all times. Using the DeCA automated cutting test program to establish prices, conduct price changes, prepare price and cost/mark-up lists, and perform inventory. Designing and/or resetting promotional and seasonal displays.

Inspecting and ensuring the department processing areas, display cases, and storage rooms remain neat, orderly, and sanitary, and comply with current sanitation and safety regulations. Inspecting equipment and initiating required maintenance. Ensuring everyone follows proper safety practices while using power tools, knives, grinding equipment, etc.

Work conditions: Most of the work is performed in the store display area, which is well lighted and maintained at a comfortable temperature. May be exposed to unusually cold temperatures in the receiving, storage and meat processing areas. May be exposed to differing temperatures when storing items in or retrieving them from refrigerated rooms.

There is a danger of injuries resulting from using electric meat processing equipment, lifting heavy products, or slipping on wet floors.

Requirements & Education

Transcripts. Required when using education to meet qualifications or when education is required. Foreign education may be qualifying if a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign education programs has deemed the foreign education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program or a U.S. accredited college or university has given full credit for the foreign courses. Unofficial transcripts from U.S.

Department of Education accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions listing your name, the name of the school, the date and degree awarded, and the list of classes and credits earned are acceptable for the application process. If selected, official transcripts are required before a firm job offer is made. A photocopy of your degree/diploma is not acceptable.

When relying on foreign education, submit transcripts and a copy of the equivalency evaluation results letter with a course by course listing. Documents must be in English or include an English translation. The hiring employer for this position does not evaluate degrees from foreign colleges or universities.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Defense Commissary Agency, Department of Defense.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $45409 – $72644/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Other security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-09-29.

What is the work schedule?

This is a Subject to an irregular tour of duty including nights, weekends, and holidays. position.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.