Meat Cutter

We are seeking a skilled Meat Cutter to join our team at Brookshire Grocery Company. As a Meat Cutter, you will be responsible for processing meat products, fulfilling special customer requests, and ensuring that our market and seafood cases are always full and fresh.

• Process meat by removing fat, tenderizing, grinding, and/or cutting to proper thickness and size.
• Cut, weigh, package, and label product using precision and non-precision hand tools and/or instruments.
• Clean, assemble, and prepare machinery and equipment for operation, and examine to ensure proper function.
• Check product for quality control and ensure food safety standards are met.
• Stack pallets and sort product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
• Provide friendly and customer service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and fulfilling customer requests for special cuts of meat.

• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, box cutters, etc.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
• Ability to effectively communicate (in written and verbal form) with customers and partners.
• Ability to learn new systems, methods, and processes.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Continuously required to maintain a steady hand while manipulating objects by hand and using fine finger movements.
• Continuously required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel, or squat.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 100 lbs.

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Continuously exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges.
• Continuously exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Continuously exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Moderate to loud noise level.