Meat Cutter/butcher

**DEPARTMENT**:Meat & Seafood Department

**POSITION TITLE**:Meat Clerk/Cutter (Full-Time)

**LOCATION**:Village Grocer (Markham, Ontario)

**TITLE OF IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR**:Manager, Meat & Seafood Department

**Role Requirements**
- 3 years of meat butchering experience
- Available to work days/evenings and weekends as scheduled (extended hours on occasion)
- Maintains a high standard of personal hygiene & appearance
- Adheres to company dress code (uniform, hat/hairnet)
- Maintains a clean and safe work-space environment
- Endure medium to high levels of physical exertion (standing, bending, lifting, etc.)
- Equipment operation (cutting knives, weigh scales, meat slicers, pallet jack, loading dock, etc.)
- Strong oral & written communication skills with customers (in-person & telephone)
- Observes company code of conduct, policies and store rules
- Preform other duties and assignments as directed

**Key Responsibilities**
- Cleaning, trimming, cutting and assembling raw meat products into a prepared state for display and sale in our retail display counters
- Greeting customers in a cordial and friendly fashion
- Answering product related questions, taking orders, selecting, weighing, pricing and wrapping
- Serving customers with timely coordination and processing of orders
- Raw meat preparation, packing, storage and inventory replenishment
- Counter presentation & product merchandising
- Maintaining an organized, clean and safe working environment
- Adhering to and maintaining the Village Grocers high level of service excellence
- Adhere to all provincial health and civil code regulations
- Assist with meat deliveries (loading, unloading, auditing/signing for orders received)

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Working Conditions
- Inside, cold (freezer)
- Long periods of standing

**Success Factors**
- Communication Skills: Meat clerks often serve as our first line of contact with our valued customers. Key skills required include:

- Speaking and engaging with customers in a calm, effective and friendly manner
- Listening skills
- Patience
- Basic Mathematics: Meat clerks are required to estimate prices and weigh product for customers
- Stamina: Meat clerks often stand for long periods of time and are required to lift medium to heavy objects
- Job Commitment: Punctual and able to work variable shifts as assigned by the department manager
- Role Engagement: Ability to work with a positive attitude and a high level of energy
- Responsibility Success: Effectively manage and complete all aspects of key responsibilities
- Collaborative Approach: Works well with others and enjoys being part of a team

**About The Village Grocer**:
The Village Grocer has been a purveyor of quality foods in the Markham community for over 30 years. Started in 1986 by Evan & Cathy MacDonald, the company’s focus is to provide customers with wholesome & quality foods together with a high level of personalized service. The Village Grocer experience includes a full range of unique, every day and gourmet food offerings in a friendly retail-shopping environment that exudes discovery for the shopper. Under the banner “Great People, Quality Food” the Village Grocer provides consumers with quality food options beyond conventional food retailers.

The Village Grocer is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. It is the policy of The Village Grocer to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and potential employees without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $20.00-$25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Discounted or free food
- Extended health care
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed

Application question(s):

- In an interview, would you be able to explain how to break down a side of beef, and also outline which cuts you would prioritize for different types of customers?

**Experience**:

- Meat cutting: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person