Butcher Jobs in Alaska (NOW HIRING)

Position Purpose: Wraps, weighs, prices, labels and displays meat properly. Fills display cases. Maintains cleanliness of department and equipment. Ensures customer service and product quality, freshness, safety and selection.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Adheres to Company and Division customer service programs to meet or exceed Division customer service goals. Handles customer relations in a positive manner, including effective resolution of customer complaints and reporting to the Meat Manager or Store Director as appropriate. Promotes Albertson's philosophy of personalized service.
• Maintains and encourages an atmosphere of fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
• Weighs, wraps, prices and labels poultry and meat products.
• Follows laws and Company policy on weighing, labeling, code-dating and the handling of reworked and reduced-to-clear items.
• Assists with the receiving and breaking down of loads. Organizes and rotates product in cooler, organizes storage areas and refrigerates products immediately. Checks for quality and quantity. Maintains product quality by ensuring compliance with Company policies and federal and state regulations on handling, storage and temperatures.
• Transports wrapped product from work area to display cases. Maintains and stocks display cases. Controls shrink. Pulls out of code date. Ensures proper merchandising, signing, inventory level and eye-appeal of department.
• May perform limited cutting duties for training purposes only. May occasionally work in the butcher block.
• Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheet and other required paperwork and logs.
• Maintains and organizes meat department cooler and freezer. Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, meat deli and butcher block cases, work areas, cooler, freezer, equipment and retail cases.
• Ensures that product packaging, labeling, rotation and wrapping standards are met.
• Ensures proper merchandizing of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies.
• Complies with all federal, state and local health, and food handling and safety standards.
• Assists customers by taking and filling special orders. Makes product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling. Makes intercom announcements.
• Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
• Other necessary and required duties.

Skills and Physical Requirements:

• Ability to be friendly, courteous, tactful and maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
• Ability to communicate orally and read and follow written work assignments.
• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures. Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
• Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, food safety, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently and occasionally climbs ladders. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks, high boys and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to package, weigh and wrap products.
• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
• Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of taste, content and perishability of products, safety and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.
• Operates scales, meat wrapping machine, computer software and electronic ordering devices to input price, weights, order and inventory and print labels.
• Utilizes knives, scrapers and other cutting and wrapping equipment. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment. Utilizes safety cutters. Requires use of safety gloves.
• May be required to work nights, weekends and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required.
• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to cutting equipment and other work aids necessary to perform job duties.
  Work Environment:
• Hands are frequently exposed to moisture while handling and stocking poultry, meat, fish and other fresh product. Requires the ability to work for prolonged periods of time in an environment range of 40˚ to 50˚ Fahrenheit. Hands are frequently exposed to 30˚ Fahrenheit while handling product in the display cases.
• Exposure to 28˚ Fahrenheit while handling products in cooler and -20˚ Fahrenheit while handling products in freezer.
• Working conditions consist of a temperature controlled store environment.

Safety - Sensitive Position:
Job responsibilities include tasks or duties that could affect the safety or health of the employee performing the task or others.
DISCLAIMER:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by employees assigned to this job. If you have questions regarding your ability to physically perform the listed job duties and requirements - e.g. lifting, standing, bending, etc. - please speak to your Store Director. All team members must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified may vary within each store and from store to store.
About Us
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw's, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson's Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico's Community Markets, King's, Balducci's, and Albertson's Market Street.
Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company's success.
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Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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