What are the responsibilities and job description for the Journeyman Meat Cutter position at Times Supermarkets?
Job Title: Journeyman Meat Cutter
Department: Meat
Reports to: Meat Manager/ Assistant Meat Manager
Pay Rate: $26.40/hr
Company Benefits:
• Flexible Hours
• Employee Discount
• 10 Paid Holidays (including
2 days for your birthday)*
• Medical/Vision/Dental Package*
• Free Life Insurance*
• Vacation and Sick Leave*
• Voluntary Insurance Plans (Life,
Disability, Cancer, Accidental)
• Long Term Disability
• Wellness Program
• Discounted Gym
membership-(YMCA)
• Matching 401K*
• Management Bonuses*
*For qualifying positions
Position Summary: Cuts, trims, bones, and grinds meat to portion and prepares quality meat department products to be displayed, while providing standard customer service.
Job duties:
- Greets customers when within ten feet and four seconds of contact
- Cuts different types of meats, poultry, and seafood
- Stocks and rotates meat items, to maintain freshness and quality, removes damaged items from cases, maintains price integrity
-Packs meat products on trays, then forward to wrapping
- Reworks older meats by marinating for sale
- Completes basic cleaning of department, by washing and sanitizing work tools and area
- Performs job duties of a meat wrapper
- Performs other related duties as needed as assigned by manager
Capabilities:
- Stand for long periods of time, very frequent walking back and forth from meat/seafood warehouse to floor
- Carry up to 60 pounds, push and pull up to 1000 pounds, frequent motions with arms/hands to cut and display products
- Use of proper safety procedures
- Able to listen to directions and follow through independently
- Have good communication and observation skills
- Able to work with a team and independently when needed
Job Skills:
- Previous experience working with the public
- Able to pass a Journeyman cutting test
- Knowledge of when to pull meat if it does not meet standards
- Working knowledge of different seafood types and cuts of meats required
- Able to work with knives, grinder, slicer
- Able to manage time well
- Able to make suggestions to customers
Environment:
- Air condition while in store, 40-50 degrees while working in the meat department.
Other:
-Must be at least 18 years of age to operate machinery
Salary : $26
