Meat Wrapper

Meat Wrapper

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service.

• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.

• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction.

• Weighs, wraps, prices, labels, trays, grinds, and displays meat, poultry, and seafood products. Assist with building meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.

• Follows laws and company policies on weighing, labeling, code-dating, and the monitoring of reworked and reduced sale items.

• Transports wrapped product from work area to display cases. Maintains and stocks display cases.

• Ensures proper merchandising, signing, inventory levels and eye-appeal of department.

• Ensures that product packaging, labeling, rotation, and wrapping standards are met.

• May perform limited cutting duties for training purposes only. May occasionally work in butcher block.

• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and maintenance of meat cooler, freezer, and butcher block.

• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.

• Understands opening and closing department procedures.

• Working knowledge of Company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb Employee Handbook.

• Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.

• Controls shrink and cost.

• Assists with controlling inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes meat cooler.

• Implements correct product preparation techniques. Uses and operates related equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, wrapping machine, scales, grinder, saw, saw blades, safety cutters, price labeling machine and tenderizer.

• Assists with accurately completing, maintaining, and monitoring daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.

• Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, stocking, and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. May assist with processing administrative paperwork and maintaining accurate department records.

• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, Company, and code dating policies.

• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.

• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, cutting room and display area, including code date compliance as required.

• Implements emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.

• Complies with company grooming standards and dress code.

• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.

• Other necessary and required duties.

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain professional demeanor regarding customers and co-workers.

• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures.

• Ability to frequently reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 60 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare, package and display products.

• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary. Able to stand for long periods of time.

• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.

• Operates telephone, pallet jack, hand truck, knives, scissors, wrapping machines, scales, grinder, tenderizer, saw, saw blades and safety cutters. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.

• Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order product.

• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required.

• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Generally, works in a temperature-controlled environment. Frequent exposure to refrigerated conditions and items at or around 35°.

• Occasional travel, including overnight travel, may be required.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $11.00 - $14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• Meat Wrapping: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

Salary : $11 - $14