Meat Specialist: Fresh Cuts & Customer Care

Hy-Vee, Inc.; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hy-Vee, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Meat Specialist to cut and merchandise fresh meat and deliver excellent customer service. You will handle tenderizing, grinding, and cutting merchandise, prepare cutting lists for case fills, and maintain proper refrigeration temperatures.

Join a fast-paced department where accuracy, safety, and strong teamwork are essential. High school or equivalent education plus Hy-Vee food safety training preferred; experience in meat operations is a plus.

Qualifications

• Must be able to solve practical problems; interpret instructions.
• Must have arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Ability to communicate with customers and guide people.

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.
• Tendersizes, grinds, and cuts merchandise.
• Prepares cutting lists for case fills.
• Monitors refrigeration for proper temperatures.

Skills

Partnerships

Growth mindset

Results oriented

Customer focused

Professionalism

Education

High School or equivalent

Hy-Vee food safety training

Tools

Power ban saw

Grinder

Tenderizer

Knives

Pallet jack

Job description

Hy-Vee, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Meat Specialist to cut and merchandise fresh meat and deliver excellent customer service. You will handle tenderizing, grinding, and cutting merchandise, prepare cutting lists for case fills, and maintain proper refrigeration temperatures.

Join a fast-paced department where accuracy, safety, and strong teamwork are essential. High school or equivalent education plus Hy-Vee food safety training preferred; experience in meat operations is a plus.