Senior Meat Cutter

Sam's Club; Tyler (TX); On-site; USD 26,174 - 37,195; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (medical, vision, dental)

401(k) and company-paid life insurance

Paid time off including parental and family care leave

Education benefit program (Live Better U)

Job summary

A leading retail warehouse club in Tyler, TX is seeking a Senior Meat Cutter to enhance sales and ensure member satisfaction by maintaining high standards in meat processing. Candidates should have at least 6 months of experience in fresh production and possess a thorough understanding of meat products and food safety regulations. The position offers competitive hourly pay between $19.00 and $27.00, along with a comprehensive benefits package including health coverage and paid time off.

Qualifications

• 6 months’ experience in a fresh production department.
• Must successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales and collaborate with teams.
• Maintain knowledge of meat products and safety standards.
• Utilize digital tools for operational decisions.
• Ensure quality of meat products and packaging.
• Advocate for high-quality customer service in meat area.

Skills

Team collaboration

Customer service

Meat product knowledge

Food safety compliance

Operational excellence

Job description

Position Summary

As a Senior Meat Cutter you will drive sales in your area to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will work collaboratively with other associates to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What You'll Do

• Be a Team Member: Collaborates with cross functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks, and resources, communicating effectively and developing interpersonal skills for providing customer service, being flexible to the needs of the business, tracking goods, maintaining in-stock levels, and controlling shrinkage.
• Be an Expert: Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the various types and seasonality of different meat products, equipment usage, and backroom operations; provides meat products to members by processing meat according to specifications (e.g., cutting, slicing, grinding, wrapping) ensuring compliance with food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, and inventory management; operates, maintains, and sanitizes equipment.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement, utilizing handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production training and product quality with the member in mind, adapting to new tools and encouraging others to use them.
• Be an Owner: Drives the business results, ensuring commitment to operational excellence, planning for profitability, maintaining a work area according to company policies and procedures, ensuring quality and standards for high-volume meat products, eliminating waste, securing fragile and high-shrink merchandise, assisting members with purchasing decisions, and ensuring merchandise is properly packaged, labeled, and stored.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: Being an advocate for the department and the club by valuing the members’ experience in the meat area and modeling high-quality service and products; executing the basics at the highest possible level of quality; interacting with associates to understand the roadblocks and assist in training them to perform job-related duties as assigned.

Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans using the Open Door Policy and applying these in executing business processes and practices.

Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners; identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carrying out tasks, communicating progress and information, determining, and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging; creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform; helps attract the best talent.

Respect the Individual: Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.

Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others; recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance; models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.

Act with Integrity: Acts in a self‑less manner and is consistently humble, self‑aware, honest, fair, and transparent.

Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer first.

Serve our Customers and Members: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short‑and‑long-term priorities, and considers how own work impacts the team’s ability to deliver on our purpose for all stakeholders.

Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn; takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience.

Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements; is open to and uses new technologies and skills and supports others through change.

Compensation and Benefits

At Sam’s Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

• Health benefits include medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase, and company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
• Other benefits include short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a company‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J.

The hourly wage range for this position is $19.00 to $27.00*.

• The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.

Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months’ experience working in a fresh production department.
• I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying requires me to successfully complete all job‑required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period if I receive the position.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meat Processing Area.

Primary Location: 2025 S Southwest Loop 323, Tyler, TX 75701‑0763, United States of America.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.