Part Time Meat Cutter

United Natural Foods, Inc.; Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food retailer is seeking a Meat Cutter to deliver exceptional customer service while handling and preparing a variety of fresh meats. The ideal candidate will possess meat processing skills, ensure sanitation standards, and demonstrate a commitment to teamwork. This role requires working in varying temperatures and schedules, including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• Ability to safely operate various meat department tools.
• Skills in customer engagement and support.
• Must work in varied temperatures and high noise levels.

Responsibilities

• Provides customer service and assists in meat selection.
• Cuts, weighs, and packages various meat products.
• Ensures cleanliness and proper stocking of meat displays.

Skills

Customer Service

Meat Processing

Sanitation Procedures

Tools

Power Saw

Meat Cutting Knife

Job description

Meat Cutter

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Has ability to recognize and cut all varieties of fresh beef, pork, chicken, veal, and lamb. Handles food in a safe manner and ensures neatness of department. Grinds, slices, and tenderizes meat, rotates stock, stocks cases, and places product in the coolers and freezers.

Experience or Training Required: Passing a Company provided block test.

Primary 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: (examples include)

· escorting them to the products they’re looking for

· securing products that are out of reach.

· loading or unloading heavy items

· making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests

· performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.

· Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.

· Ensures appropriate stocking of fresh and smoked meat/pork/poultry cases, coolers, and freezers by rotating and replenishing product.

· Cuts and trims fresh meat.

· Weighs, dates, labels and wraps fresh meat.

· Slices hams and other approved boneless, smoked items.

· Tenderizes beef or pork using cuber machine.

· Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.

Skills and Abilities

· The ability to work for prolonged periods of time in refrigerated and frozen levels of temperatures.

· The ability to work in an environment with continuous high noise levels.

· Must be able to safely operate a power saw, box cutter, meat cutting knife, cuber, slicer, wrapper, and all cleaning equipment found in the meat department.

· Must have the ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions.

· Ability to do simple addition and subtraction, copying figures, counting, and recording.

· Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

· Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color), and field of vision.

· Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays.