Meat Dispatcher: Fast-Paced, Customer-Focused with Benefits

Vallarta Supermarkets; Whittier (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free life and AD&D insurance ($25,000)

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Legal services access

Holiday premium pay

Savings marketplace & credit union

Recognition programs

Job summary

Vallarta Supermarkets is hiring for a full-time Meat Dispatcher to assist customers, stock displays, and ensure fresh, correctly labeled meat, seafood, and cremeria products. You’ll work in a fast-paced, festive store environment while upholding Vallarta’s high standards of food safety and honesty.

You will learn product codes, assist with stocking, packaging, and pricing, and support the department’s goals under supervision.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn different meat, seafood, and cremeria products.
• Ability to learn product codes and uses.
• Basic understanding of English language.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, crowded environment with urgency.
• Team-oriented, professional, and respectful attitude.
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Direct customer interaction in a retail meat department.
• Exposure to perishable products, refrigerated coolers, prep areas, and changing conditions.
• Collaborative, team-focused workplace.
• Able to work flexible schedules, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Smile, greet, and assist customers with extraordinary service.
• Model Vallarta’s core values: customer service, commitment, integrity, respect, humility, and teamwork.
• Achieve and maintain standards for merchandising, presentation, signage, inventory, and price integrity.
• Fill customer orders accurately, package, weigh, and label products with honesty and care.
• Rotate and stock products in display cases and coolers; maintain freshness and quality.
• Promote sales through suggestive selling and preparation of marinated meats and vegetables.
• Maintain cases, counters, and displays clean and presentable.
• Ensure compliance with weights, measures, and labeling laws.
• Monitor case temperatures and report discrepancies to management.
• Assist with sanitation processes, cleaning work areas and equipment.
• Work safely, using protective equipment, and report unsafe conditions.

Skills

Customer service

Fast learner

Team player

Attention to detail

Job description

Vallarta Supermarkets is hiring for a full-time Meat Dispatcher to assist customers, stock displays, and ensure fresh, correctly labeled meat, seafood, and cremeria products. You’ll work in a fast-paced, festive store environment while upholding Vallarta’s high standards of food safety and honesty.

You will learn product codes, assist with stocking, packaging, and pricing, and support the department’s goals under supervision.