About this role
Tony’s Market Job Description
Title
Meat Cutter
Department(s)
Meat
Reports to
Meat Manager
Job summary:
Responsible for grinding, cutting, trimming, or preparing consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale.
Summary of essential job functions:
- Immediately greets all customers and ensures customer satisfaction.
- Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.
- Clean, trim, slice, and section primals and meat for future processing or packaging.
- Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from primals.
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form.
- Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery, to ensure meat quality.
- Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
- Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.
- Produce hamburger meat and meat trimmings.
- Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.
- Wrap, weigh, label and price cuts of meat.
- Prepare and display meat cuts in display counter, so they will appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.
- Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.
- Estimate requirements and order meat supplies to maintain inventories.
- Record quantity of meat received and issued to other departments and/or keep records of meat sales.
- Complete specials projects and other duties as assigned
- Timely and consistent attendance.
Standard job functions
- Upholds the 7 guiding principles of the company
- Support goals and vision of General Manager.
- Consistently presents a professional personal image and uphold the company’s uniform policy
- Maintain safe, clean and well-organized working and shopping environment
- Comply with all regulatory rules and regulations including HACCP, OSHA, Dept. of Labor, Weights and Measures and local food and sanitation laws.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule including holidays and weekends
Knowledge, skills and abilities required
- Previous meat cutter experience preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills
- Ability to multitask and use organizational skills
- 2-3 Years meat cutting experience preferred