Meat Specialist & Customer Service Pro

Hy-Vee; Lee's Summit (MO); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Hy-Vee is seeking a Meat Specialist in the Meat Department to cut and merchandise all fresh meat items while delivering excellent customer service. You will greet customers, assist with product selection, and ensure proper temperatures in refrigeration units.

You’ll also help with cutting, grinding, and tenderizing meat, and assist in maintaining department standards. The role requires a high school diploma or equivalent and Hy-Vee food safety training, with over a year of related experience

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent; Hy-Vee food safety training.
• Over one year of related work experience preferred.
• Ability to cut, tenderize, and merchandise meat.

Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Assists customers by escorting them to products, securing items, loading or unloading heavy items, noting customer suggestions, and performing other tasks to enhance the shopping experience.
• Tenders, grinds, and cuts merchandise; prepares cutting lists for case fills; conducts cutting tests.
• Monitors refrigeration for proper temperatures; maintains hygiene and dress guidelines; reports to work as scheduled.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Problem solving

Arithmetic

Education

High School or equivalent

Hy-Vee food safety training

Tools

Power ban saw

Grinder

Tenderizer

Knives

Rotisserie

Wrapping system

Pallet jack

Job description

Hy-Vee is seeking a Meat Specialist in the Meat Department to cut and merchandise all fresh meat items while delivering excellent customer service. You will greet customers, assist with product selection, and ensure proper temperatures in refrigeration units.

You’ll also help with cutting, grinding, and tenderizing meat, and assist in maintaining department standards. The role requires a high school diploma or equivalent and Hy-Vee food safety training, with over a year of related experience