Job Description

Job Location: Store 7 - Pinecrest, FL 33156
Salary Range: $20.50 Hourly

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.

QualificationsSkills
- 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