Meat Wrapper

JOB DETAILS:

Giant Eagle Corporate Market District

Position Title: Meat Wrapper

Department: Meat

Supervisor's Title: Meat Manager      

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Employment Status: Full/Part Time

Date: 3/03/09                          

Position Summary:

A Meat Wrappers' first responsibility is to wrap freshly cut meat, price merchandise, stock display cases, rotate stock for freshness, maintain clean conditions, service customers to ensure customer requirements are met, and build customer loyalty by providing unparalleled customer service.

Essential Functions:

•Actively support a culture of safety which includes, but is not limited to, food safety, Team Member safety and customer safety.

•Display a commitment to learn about food and share food knowledge with fellow team members and customers.

•Demonstrate a willingness to learn, understand, and communicate the Market District Passion for Food philosophy, which includes the willingness to taste and experience new product offerings.

•Actively demonstrate appropriate suggestive selling techniques.

•Provide active sampling opportunities, when appropriate.

•Conduct business, at all times, with a clear understanding that customer service is a significant point of difference for the Market District banner. Every interaction, whether with an internal or external customer is to be conducted with the highest degree of integrity and with an understanding that the end result is to deliver service in an unparalleled manner.

•Actively participate in, and promote, an environment which embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for Team Members, Customers, Vendors, and the Community

•Provide products and services that meet the requirements of internal and external customers at all times.

•Maintain cleanliness of equipment, tables, utensils, floor (to ensure safety), and sanitation regulations are met.

•Wrapping meat by wrapping packages with plastic film in manual or automatic wrapper.

•Stocking display cases.

•Servicing customers at service cases by filling the customer's request for product.

•Knowledge of code dating.

•Follow proper procedures to ensure store meets out-of-stock percentage goals.

•Load frozen food and lunch meat cases.

•Filling and maintaining all service cases.

•Unloading product from deliveries and placing in coolers.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Formal Education Required

•High school diploma or equivalent

Licenses or Certificates

•None

Experience

Required

•0 - 6 months experience

•Must be 18 years of age

Desired

Prior experience in the field

Skills

•Ability to identify different cuts of meat

•Accountability

•Action-oriented

•Adaptability

•Attention to detail

•Basic math skills

•Customer Service

•Decision-making

•Initiative

•Integrity and Trust

•Listening

•Managing Diversity

•Patience

•Teamwork

•Tolerance for Stress

•Verbal Communication

•Written Communication

Additional

•Safety Awareness

•Math Skills

•Interpersonal Skills

•Ability to follow direction/verbal and written

Authority

•Authority to make decisions or commitments within the limits of company policies and procedures that are clearly specified.

Decision Making

•Decisions are simple and based on well-defined choices.

Job Complexity

•Work requires using different methods that are already available.

Budgetary Responsibility

•Responsible for controlling some expense within a department.

Contacts

•Internal: Contact within the department and some routine contact outside the department.

•Purpose of Internal: Obtain or exchange general information, respond to questions.

•External: Contact with day-to-day customer, vendors or sales representatives.

•Purpose of External contacts: Obtain or exchange general information, respond to questions.

Supervisory Responsibility

•None

Equipment Used         

Retail Equipment used

Warehouse Equipment used

Travel

none

Physical Requirements

• Bending                                   
• Carrying                                    
• Climbing
• Grasping
• Reaching                                 
• Repetitive Motion                   
• Sight or Peripheral Vision       
• Sorting                         
• Standing          
• Telephone usage
• Unlocking                                
• Communication (verbal)         
• Walking                                   
• Writing
• Twisting
• Lifting   (up to 50 lbs)                           
• Matching                                 
• Opening                                   
• Operating Equipment   
• Pulling                         
• Pushing                                    
• Reading           
• Hearing                       

                          
Working Conditions

• Work near moving mechanical parts
• Work in area with considerable dust at times
• Work in areas with considerable noise at times
• Work in areas with considerable cold at times (weather/ and non weather)