DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast
and friendly Customer Service.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom and oneon-one customer interaction.
• Plans daily operation, monitors production process following company procedures and profitability.
• Trims, cuts, wraps, trays and displays meat. Builds meat and seafood displays, rotates and discards outdated or
spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and
maintenance of meat cooler, freezer and butcher block.
• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sales items.
• Runs cutting tests on meat products to monitor profitability.
• Ensures trim specifications and cutting standards are followed. Ensures temperatures are
maintained in all phases of meat preparation, display and storage. Schedules, supervises, trains
and assigns duties to department employees.
• Monitors employee productivity and evaluates overall performance.
• Schedules employees to ensure adequate coverage and service levels.
• Specific knowledge of duties performed by all department employees. Oversees and assists with all
department duties such as: cutting, grinding and wrapping fresh meat products.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Trains employees on store policies, sales and record keeping procedures.
• Identifies and trains employees with high potential for advancement opportunities.
• Working knowledge of company policies and guidelines as outlined in the Albertsons/Tom Thumb Employee
Handbook.
• Initiates personnel actions such as pre-employment interviews, transfers, promotions, and disciplinary actions.
• Prepare sales and inventory reports. Physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.
• Controls inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory
levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes meat cooler.
• Controls shrink and cost.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques.
• Uses and operates equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, safety cutters, grinder, saws,
saw blades and cuber
• Accurately completes, maintains and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log,
Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.