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This job was posted by https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov/jobs/4183487

JOB FUNCTION: To maximize sales and profit in the Meat Department through proper cutting, wrapping, and displaying of meat products.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Breakdown, cut, and trim all meat products as directed by company standards.
2. Identify the various cuts of meat, weigh, wrap/package products in a clean, neat, and attractive package that customers will want to purchase.
3. Write down customers special orders/requests and prepare the request to the customers specifications.
4. Prepare/organize the cooler/freezer/backroom/preparation area for receipt of merchandise, unload trucks, verify the merchandise against the invoice, inspect the delivery for quality/shortages/damage, sort cases for stocking or product preparation and code date the product.
5. Clean and sanitize department floors, mirror, case, racks, tables, cooler, freezer, department equipment, product preparation area, and shelves. Safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals.
6. Load stocking carts/pallets, transport cases/product to sales floor/ cooler/freezer/product preparation area either on stocking carts or pallets, match the case strip to the shelf/case tag/stock, open cases, place merchandise in the designated cooler/freezer/case/shelf/display position/area, check the product code/freshness date and \"face/front\"/rotate each product on display.
7. Always operate equipment with all safeguards in place and in good operating condition; observe the safe method of performing all duties; use and maintain all equipment in good condition. Assure the safety of self, customers, and co-workers by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately. Pick up/remove all trash/boxes/packing materials from the sales floor or product preparation area immediately.
8. Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substituting for absent workers, and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers during peak periods of business.
9. Understand the operations, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack, pricing gun, grinder, tenderizer, saw, knife, slicer, scales, wrapper, smoker. NOTE: must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, forklift, baler, grinder, smoker, tenderizer, saw and slicer.
10. Count and record individual items of merchandise for inventory.
11. Change department pricing on the scale system as directed and manually price mark/label merchandise without a UPC code.
12. Evaluate product quality and move damaged/unsalable and \"returnable\" products from the shelf/case to the backroom for re-processing into a saleable form or marking the product down in price.
13. Use the proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to product.
14. Remove trash from the aisle or product preparation area and operate the baler.
15. Change signs, light bulbs, and signs/tags on the case/shelf display.
16. Communicate with the department manager on problems, recommendation for change and merchandising ideas.
17. Check case and cooler/freezer temperatures 3 times daily.
18. Ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance. Ability to work overtime (including more than 10 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, or 5 days in a row).
19. Record \"out-of-stock\" conditions and the time they occur, report to the department manager.
20. Perform other duties and assignments as directed.