Costco Hiring – Meat Cutter

Job Description:

Cuts and trims and prepares raw meat for sale using saws, knifes, grinder, and tenderizer.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitors and assists in preventing spoilage.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• 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.
• Cuts, platters, and merchandises products (beef, pork, lamb, veal, poultry).
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Mentors and supports assigned Meat Cutter Trainee(s).
• 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.

Job Requirements:

• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
• Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness.
• Extensive knowledge of different cuts and cooking techniques of meat and seafood.
• Capable of accessing information about market conditions and communicating this information to customers.
• Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
• Excellent cutting skills with the ability to bread product down into sub-primal and retail cuts.
• Exposure to temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
• Working understanding of Meat team processes and procedures.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.

Job Details:

Company:  Costco Wholesale

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Idaho Falls, ID, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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