Meat Associate

Company Introduction: T&T Supermarket Inc. was founded in 1993 with two stores in BC. Since then, it has expanded rapidly and is now Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain with 31 stores across the country: 13 in BC, 7 in Alberta, 10 in Ontario, and 1 in Quebec. The Company’s continuous expansion is going to bring more new stores in the next couple of years.
The Role: Reporting to the Meat Department Head (or his/her delegates), the Meat Associate is responsible to provide good service to our customers by fulfilling their requests, maintain inventory and workplace cleanliness.
- Major Responsibilities: Assist customers in selecting meat products and provide recommendations to them, if necessary
- Maintain inventory and product quality; ensure full display of various meat products
- Cut, pack and label various meat products and display them in the display coolers
- Label frozen meat products and put into the display cooler
- Maintain workplace cleanliness, wash and ensure relevant work tools are clean and well-kept
- Keep warehouse, display and walk-in coolers clean and tidy
- Follow procedures to process expired products and manage shrinkage
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the superior

**Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements**
- Accountable, pleasant and is able to take initiative
- Friendly and have a passion to serve our customers
- Flexible to work in shifts, including weekdays, weekends, evening hours and statutory holidays
- Able to communicate in English and Chinese (Cantonese &/or Mandarin) an asset
- Able to stand a long time, dealing hands on with products and lifting of products of 50 pounds on a regular basis
- A good team player
- Not allergic to handle meat products
- Knowledge of basic work safety
- Relevant experience in handling meat products is preferred
- Completed secondary education an asset

**Safety Statement **Safety continues to be T&T Supermarket’s top priority. We’ve established health and safety policies and measures to ensure our Stores, Food Processing & Production Centres and Warehouse & Distribution are as safe as possible.

**Benefit**
- Staff purchase discount
- Paid annual leave, sick leave, marriage leave and bereavement leave
- Discounted staff meals
- Life and AD&D Insurance

**Shift**
- Shift work is required
- Weekday & one day of weekend