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Assistant Meat Manager

Maintain an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with a focus on fast, friendly service.

Assist customers with product suggestions, special orders, and food preparation ideas.

Engage in suggestive selling through phone interactions, intercom announcements, and face-to-face service.

Assist with planning daily operations and monitoring production processes following company procedures and profitability guidelines.

Trim, cut, wrap, tray, and display meat products.

Build meat and seafood displays; rotate and discard outdated or spoiled product.

Ensure department and work areas are clean and well organized.

Implement effective promotional and seasonal displays.

Support operation and maintenance of meat coolers, freezers, and butcher block.

Follow and maintain department standards for handling quick-sale items.

Ensure trim specifications and cutting standards are properly followed.

Ensure all temperature requirements are met during preparation, display, and storage.

Ensure proper code dating and enforce company, federal, and state regulations, including retail labeling laws and COOL (Country of Origin Labeling).

Comply with all workplace safety rules and sanitation requirements.

Schedule, supervise, train, and assign duties to department employees.

Maintain knowledge of all department roles and responsibilities.

Understand and ensure correct execution of opening and closing procedures.

Train employees on store policies, sales procedures, and record-keeping.

Communicate sales goals, department performance, and opportunities to employees.

Assist with controlling inventory levels to ensure sufficient quantity, quality, and freshness.

Stock, rotate, and organize product in the meat cooler and on the sales floor.

Control shrink and departmental costs.

Assist with preparing sales and inventory reports; support physical inventory every four weeks.

Ensure proper product preparation techniques are followed.

Operate equipment such as pallet jacks, hand trucks, knives, scissors, grinders, saws, saw blades, safety cutters, and cubers.

Accurately complete, maintain, and monitor required logs and paperwork, including:

• Daily log sheets
• Production charts
• Meat grinding logs
• Sales and labor records
• Other required documentation

Perform receiving duties including breaking down loads, verifying invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, stocking, and rotating product.

Follow temperature and storage guidelines and proper packaging techniques.

Maintain accurate department records.

Ensure proper temperature maintenance for all products.

Ensure accurate pricing and signage on all items.

Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work areas, equipment, freezers, coolers, cutting rooms, and display areas.

Implement emergency procedures when equipment or software malfunctions occur.

Attend and participate in sales meetings as required.

Ensure compliance with company grooming standards and dress code.

Perform all job duties safely, accurately, and with honesty and integrity.

Perform other duties as required.

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