(USA) Senior Meat Cutter

Sam's Club; Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 28,929 - 39,950; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sam's Club in Gardena, CA is seeking a Senior Meat Cutter to drive sales and ensure members receive high-quality meat products. You will cut, slice, grind, and wrap meat while upholding food-safety standards and inventory control.

Work with cross-functional teams, utilize handheld tools for production decisions, and mentor staff to keep displays fresh and accurately labeled. This full-time role includes health benefits, retirement options, and PTO.

Qualifications

• Experience in fresh meat production and handling.
• Knowledge of meat cutting methods (cutting, slicing, grinding, wrapping).
• Understanding food-safety standards and sanitation guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet member expectations.
• Operate meat production areas, ensuring quality, labeling, and proper packaging.
• Use handheld tools to support production decisions and staff training.
• Maintain clean, organized work areas and proper inventory levels.
• Model high standards of service and mentor junior teammates.

Skills

Meat cutting

Food safety

Inventory management

Team collaboration

Customer service

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 back‑room operations, providing meat products to members by processing meat according to specifications (e.g., cutting, slicing, grinding, and wrapping) and ensuring compliance with food‑safety standards, sanitation guidelines, and inventory management while operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience, and elevate associate engagement by 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, and 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: Acts as an advocate for the department and the club by valuing the member’s 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 roadblocks, and assisting in training them to perform job‑related duties as assigned.

Company Values

• 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, and determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities while adapting to and learning from change, difficulty, and feedback.
• Respect the Individual: Embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform, and helping to attract the best talent.
• Respect the Individual: Works as a team, builds strong and trusting relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Respect the Individual: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizing 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; and 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.

Salary & Compensation

The hourly wage range for this position is $21.00 to $29.00.

• 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.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meat Processing Area.

Benefits

• 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
• 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.

Location

Primary Location: 1399 W ARTESIA BLVD, GARDENA, CA 90248-3363, United States of America.

Drug‑Free Workplace

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.