Meat Cutter

Primary Purpose and Mission Statement: Rock Creek IGA and its employees pledge to put customers first by:

• Greeting customers with a friendly smile.
• Providing quick, accurate, and courteous service.
• Supplying a variety of products that meet high quantity, quality, and freshness standards.
• Thanking customers for making us their hometown store.

Essential Duties:

• Provides premier customer service, including greeting customers and answering their questions.
• Cuts and prepares all varieties and cuts of meat while operating tools safely.
• Sells products by providing customers with information needed to make a product-related decision.
• Helps to verify and unload meat deliveries from trucks.
• Maintains, fills, and rotates product in meat cases.
• Moves meat from coolers to cutting area and returns cut meat to coolers.
• Trains other associates as needed.
• Maintains Rock Creek IGA standards for product guidelines in sanitations, freshness, trimming, and cutting.
• Cleans equipment.
• Assists in other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• At least 18 years of age.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to deliver friendly, courteous, prompt customer service.
• Ability to interpret and follow instructions and solve problems.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. throughout any assigned shift unassisted.
• Ability to push/pull a loaded Grocery cart throughout any assigned shift unassisted.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time.
• Ability to climb and balance on a step stool/ladder.
• Ability to stoop, kneel and crouch.
• Ability to sustain repetitive arm and hand motion.
• Ability to reach above shoulders and horizontally to stock and retrieve inventory.

Work Environment:

• Ability to work under a variety of conditions and temperatures, wet and dry, for extended periods of time.
• Ability to work safely with box cutters and meat department equipment.

*This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with the job. This position description is subject to revision at any time. *