Meat Cutter Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Meat Cutter to join our team at Harps Food Stores, Inc. As a Meat Cutter, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional customer service, maintaining a high level of product quality, and ensuring a safe and clean working environment.

1. Support meat department operations, including department readiness, staffing, supervision, price maintenance, policies and procedures, inventory preparation, department financial goals and objectives, department cleanliness, and safe use of equipment and tools.
2. Support meat department replenishment and inventory processes by assisting in ordering, replenishment, receiving, invoicing and accounting, back stock, reclamation and returns, damages and reworks, supply use and inventory preparation.
3. Maintain merchandising and sales floor standards, including proper stocking, rotation, signing, setting and maintaining displays, sampling and overall department procedures.
4. Follow all company and food safety production guidelines for fresh food preparation, production and processing, ensuring all product produced for consumption is properly packaged/wrapped, weighted and/or priced, and labeled according to company and regulatory requirements.
5. Adhere to all proper equipment procedures, including cleaning and maintenance requirements.
6. Clearly define issues upfront and use critical thinking skills and logic to effectively obtain answers to questions through a conscious and organized manner.
7. Consistently produce and emphasize the need to produce high-quality products and services while being aware of the issues and following procedures that affect personal safety and the safety of others.
8. As a Manager Cutter, you will successfully initiate, develop, and foster relationships with others, taking a personal interest in the interests and ideas of others and treating others fairly, respectfully, and sincerely.
9. Demonstrate responsible behavior, thoroughness of work, and dependability, consistently demonstrating compliance with Harps' policies and procedures, including regular and timely attendance, adherence to dress code, and ensuring a safe work environment.
10. Understand what delivering more than expected means in regards to great customer service, removing any barriers impeding customer service, and actively looking for ways to help others by following our SMILE Program guidelines.
11. Demonstrate and act in accordance with an appropriate and sound set of values, beliefs, and business ethics, being an honest person and acting consistently in accordance with values that are consistent with those of the organization.
12. Hold yourself accountable by demonstrating a 'no excuses' approach to your own attitude, performance, and results, working in the best interest of Harps even when it involves putting individual needs aside.
13. As a Market Cutter, you will anticipate and recognize customer needs, remaining dedicated to exceeding customer expectations, using customer information to improve products and services, and continually striving to improve customer satisfaction.
14. Encourage an atmosphere of teamwork by your own actions, supporting others, facilitating their work, and defending them when appropriate, encouraging cooperation and trust within a group, and showing a high concern for the rights, values, and worth of others.
15. Strive daily to exceed your customers' expectations in an effort to support the Harps' Mission Statement - 'Our mission is to provide the best overall value to our customers, building a reputation for competitive prices, product quality and freshness, friendly service and cleanliness.'

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent preferred.
• Three years previous experience working in meat market or retail grocery store preferred.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Adaptable to different situations and the ability to respond with flexibility to shifting priorities and rapid change.
• Ability to interpret, understand, and follow instructions.
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Moves, lifts, carries, and places merchandise and supplies weighing less than or equal to 100 pounds without assistance.
• Frequently reaches overhead and below the knee, including pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, crouching, and twisting with or without bearing weight. Occasionally required to squat, kneel, and climb.
• Continuous repetitive motion with hand(s) and arm(s), such as grasping, gripping, and turning.
• Stands and/or walks continuously throughout shift.
• Visually locates merchandise and other objects, as well as verifies information, often in small print.
• May be exposed to all weather conditions (hot, cold, rain, snow, ice, and wind) as well as, inside work with variations in heat, cold, dust, and humidity.
• May be exposed to cleaning solvents or other chemicals.
• May be exposed to latex, eggs, nuts, soy, and wheat.
• Employment at Harps may be contingent upon completion and our evaluation of a PEP survey, drug screen, employment reference check, and criminal background check.