Meat Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in the daily operations in meat and seafood departments.
• Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions.
• Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable, and prompt service.
• Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.
• Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated to increase customer confidence and loyalty.
• Prepares and packages meat, seafood, random weight, lunchmeat, frozen food, and salted meats to production standards.
• Operates department equipment and tools.
• Ensures customer requests and special orders are fulfilled.
• Promotes trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job-specific information.
• Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
• Stocks and rotates department products to ensure freshness and date control; restocks and uses supply items efficiently to eliminate waste and to maintain the lowest supply cost.
• Receives and breakdowns meat deliveries.
• Keeps work area clean, orderly, and free from safety hazards.
• Maintains an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions and reports any discrepancies in inventory.
• Reviews/inspects products for quality and freshness and takes appropriate action with those items.
• Ensures product is held at the proper temperature per food safety guidelines and retains documentation of temperature logs per policy.
• Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, and productivity are maintained.
• Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
• Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access.
• Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management.
• Notifies management of customer or employee accidents.
• Reports all safety risks, or issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
• Cultivates a culture of safety within the store.
• Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training.
• Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required.
• Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Knowledge of cutting, traying, wrapping, and labeling.
• Retail - Meat/Seafood environment.
• Required Equipment: cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment, such as racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts.
• Department Specific Required Equipment: baler/compactor, general hardware tools such as a ladder, pliers, wire cutters, ice machine, shovel, powered cutting equipment, such as slicers, saws, grinders, various knives, wrapping equipment, automatic meat wrapper, lobster tanks, box cutter.
• Personal Protective Equipment: Goggles, Gloves, Cutting Gloves, Fryer Gloves, Oven Gloves, Back Brace.
• Varied shifts.

Qualifications

• Strong customer service skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills.
• Preferred Education: High School / GED.
• Preferred Language: Spanish.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell, and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet.
• Frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift various loads up to the required weights.
• Occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 10 ft.
• Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs.
• Lifting Requirement: 70 lbs.

Working Conditions

• May be exposed to working in indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid working conditions.

Safety Risk Factors

• Frequently required to twist back and/or neck, walk on a slippery or cluttered floor surface, work with hazardous equipment, and be exposed to sharp objects.
• Occasionally required to be exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions, and other toxins.