Meat Butcher (Coconut Grove)

Description

Performs duties relating to the cutting, preparation, display, and selling of meat products. All Milam's Markets jobs require ensuring a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and associates at all times.

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 Milam’s Markets quality standards. 

• Monitors 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 need 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. 

• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with Milam’s Markets cleanliness and safety standards. 

• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing. 

• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations. 

• Performs other duties as assigned by store, regional, or national leadership.

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 team. 
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow associates, customers, and vendors. 
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and associates. 
• Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills. 
• Passion for natural foods and the mission of Milam's Markets.
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency. 
• Understanding of and compliance with goals.

Working Conditions

• 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 temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit. 

• Ability to work in a wet and cold environment. 

• Ability to handle knives and other cutting equipment. 

• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed. 

Ability to use tools and equipment, including box cutters, electric pallet jacks, and other heavy machinery