(USA) Senior Meat Cutter

Sam's Club; Kannapolis (NC); On-site; USD 27,552 - 38,572; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits: medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) and stock purchase plan

Paid time off including parental leave and jury duty

Job summary

A membership retail warehouse is hiring a Senior Meat Cutter in Kannapolis, NC. The role involves driving sales by ensuring product quality and compliance with food safety standards. Responsibilities include collaborating with associates, maintaining knowledge of meat products, and assisting customers with their purchases. Applicants should have 6 months of fresh production experience and be at least 18 years old. Competitive hourly wage between $20.00 to $28.00, along with numerous benefits including health coverage and paid time off.

Qualifications

• 6 months of experience in a fresh production department.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Ability to complete required trainings and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales and meet member expectations.
• Maintain knowledge of various meat products and operations.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize performance.
• Ensure compliance with food safety standards.
• Assist members with purchasing decisions.

Skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Flexibility

Problem-solving

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

• Collaborate with cross functional teams and help 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.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of various types and seasonality of different meat products, equipment usage, and backroom operations. Provide meat products to members by processing meat according to specifications, e.g., cutting, slicing, grinding, and wrapping meat products, ensuring compliance with food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, and inventory management; operating, maintaining, and sanitizing equipment.
• Leverage 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.
• Drive 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.
• Act as a talent ambassador: advocate for the department and the club by valuing the members’ experience in the meat area, modeling high-quality service and products, executing the basics at highest possible level of quality, interacting with associates to understand roadblocks, and assisting in training them to perform job-related duties as assigned.
• Comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity, implementing action plans and applying them in business practices; complete work assignments and priorities using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners, identifying priorities, deadlines, expectations, communicating progress, recommending improvement opportunities, and adapting to change.
• Respect the individual by embracing differences, creating a supportive workplace, helping attract talent, building strong relationships, communicating with impact and positivity, mentoring peers, recognizing contributions, supporting integrity, holding accountable, and fostering culture.
• Serve customers and members: deliver results with customer focus; make decisions based on reliable information, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering impact on team and stakeholders.
• Strive for excellence: display curiosity, learn, take calculated risks, demonstrate courage and resilience, drive continuous improvements, embrace technology, and support others through change.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 months’ experience working in a fresh production department.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Ability to successfully complete all required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meat Processing Area experience.

Location

2421 SUPERCENTER DR NE, KANNAPOLIS, NC 28083-6426, United States of America

Compensation

Hourly wage range: $20.00 to $28.00. Actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation (premiums) may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed.

Benefits

• Health benefits: medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase plan, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits: short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U

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 may change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

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.