Meat Wrapper

Save-A-Lot stores; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 16,531 - 20,664; Full time

Job summary

A grocery store chain is seeking a Meat Wrapper to manage meat products from unloading to packaging. This role involves operating machinery, maintaining product freshness, and providing customer assistance. Employees will work shifts of up to 8 hours in a refrigerated environment. The ideal candidate should be able to lift and stack products and have basic math skills. This position plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and avails of meat products to customers.

Qualifications

• Must be able to operate various machines including slicers and grinders.
• Lift and stack items up to 50 pounds as part of job duties.
• Customer service skills required to assist customers directly.

Responsibilities

• Unload products from trucks and stage meat items in chillers.
• Manage and maintain product freshness and sanitation.
• Package and price meat items accurately for sale.

Skills

Ability to lift 50 pounds

Basic math skills

Customer service skills

Operational skills for machinery

Tools

Slicers

Scales

Grinders

Hydraulic baler

Job description

Position: Meat Wrapper

OVERVIEW: A meat wrapper unloads product from trucks, stages meat items in the cooler and freezer, dates, weighs, packages and merchandises product and stocks product on racks and shelves. They operate stock dollies, grinding machines, slicers, scales, mechanical price marking machines and devices and use knives and case cutters. They work shifts, normally up to 8 hours a day, read and write, add, subtract, multiply and divide. They lift and stack up to 50# and reach and stock product on shelves and racks up to 6 feet high. In addition, they work in a refrigerated environment in the cutting room, cooler and freezer in temperatures from 0 degrees to 55 degrees. They weigh and wrap meat items such as steaks, ground meat, roasts, lamb, veal and pork. They recondition product, use knives and operate automatic weighing and labeling machines, slicers and grinders. They help customers with order selection, perform suggestive selling, check in vendors, log spoilage and item sales and maintain product freshness. They also stock pre-packaged meat items, rotate product, check code dates for freshness and perform sweeping, mopping, case cleaning and general cleaning functions.

Job requirements

• Work shifts.
• Read & write.
• Add, subtract, multiply & divide.
• Lift & stack up to 50 pounds.
• Reach & stock product up to 6 feet high.
• Travel to & from work.
• Pull or push wheeled vehicles weighing up to 500 pounds.
• Operate slicers, scales, grinders and labeling machines.
• Work a minimum 8 hour shift.
• Provide verbal & physical assistance to customers.
• Prepare, weigh, package and price product.
• Operate hydraulic baler.
• Maintain sales and other written records.
• Perform freshness checks and re-condition product.
• Perform sweeping, cleaning and mopping functions.
• Operate telephones and intercoms.
• Stock and merchandise product.
• Date and rotate product.
• Maintain sanitation standards.
• Bag and remove trash.

Age required

18 (for duties requiring minimum age)