Butcher

Company: Whole Foods Market
Location: Chappaqua
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

Cuts, prepares, displays and sells meat products, ensuring a positive company image and efficient customer service. Performs duties according to team and store Standard Operating Procedures, supporting WFM core values and goals. Cuts, platters and merchandises products, prepares specialty meat merchandise and checks product quality. Maintains sampling programs, monitors and prevents spoilage, mentors and supports trainees, and provides excellent customer service. Follows established procedures, maintains a clean and sanitary working environment and performs opening, mid and closing duties. Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.

• Main Responsibilities:
• Cuts, platters and merchandises products (beef, pork, lamb, veal, poultry)
• Prepares specialty meat merchandise (i.e. sausage, oven ready products, and cured meats)
• Checks product to make sure it meets WFM quality standards
• Maintains sampling program
• Mons and assists in preventing spoilage
• Mentors and supports assigned Meat Cutter Trainee(s)
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices
  • Key Skills:
  • Working understanding of Meat team processes and procedures
  • Excellent cutting skills with the ability to bread product down into sub-primal and retail cuts
  • Extensive knowledge of different cuts and cooking techniques of meat and seafood
  • Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness
  • Capable of accessing information about market conditions and communicating this information to customers
  • Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a teamPhysical Requirements: Must be able to lift 50 pounds. In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours. Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling. Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching. Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals. Exposure to temperatures: 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Ability to work in a wet and cold environment. Ability to handle knives and other cutting equipment.

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