Meat & Seafood Dispatcher — Fast-Paced, Customer-Focused

Vallarta Supermarkets; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free $25,000 Basic Life and AD&D

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid vacation

Access to legal services

Premium pay for holidays

Savings marketplace & credit union

Recognition programs

Job summary

Vallarta Supermarkets is seeking a Meat Dispatcher to provide prompt customer service, fill meat/seafood orders, and maintain displays with freshness and labeling accuracy. You’ll keep cases clean, rotate stock, and assist with sanitation in a fast-paced, friendly environment.

The role emphasizes learning product codes, following safety rules, and collaborating with team members across shifts, including evenings and weekends. Physical duties and safety compliance are required.

Qualifications

• Learn meat, seafood, and cremeria products types.
• Learn product codes and uses.
• Basic English language understanding.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, crowded environment with urgency.
• Team-oriented, respectful attitude.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Meat dept with direct customer interaction.
• Exposure to perishable products and cold areas.
• Collaborative, team-focused workplace.
• Able to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers and provide extraordinary service.
• Model Vallarta’s core values: customer service, commitment, integrity, respect, humility, teamwork.
• Maintain merchandising, signage, inventory, and price integrity.
• Fill orders, package, weigh, and label products.
• Rotate and stock displays; ensure freshness and quality.
• Promote sales through suggestive selling of meats and veggies.
• Keep cases, counters, displays clean and presentable.
• Follow weights, measures, and labeling laws.
• Monitor case temperatures; report discrepancies.
• Assist sanitation and clean work areas and equipment.
• Follow safety and dress code policies.
• Support teamwork and communicate with management.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Learn meat types

Product codes

English basics

Fast-paced environment

Teamwork

Authorized to work in US

Direct customer interaction

Perishables exposure

Collaborative workplace

Flexible schedule

Job description

Vallarta Supermarkets is seeking a Meat Dispatcher to provide prompt customer service, fill meat/seafood orders, and maintain displays with freshness and labeling accuracy. You’ll keep cases clean, rotate stock, and assist with sanitation in a fast-paced, friendly environment.

The role emphasizes learning product codes, following safety rules, and collaborating with team members across shifts, including evenings and weekends. Physical duties and safety compliance are required.