Meat Cutter

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) is a family business based in Tyler, Texas, operating over 205 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, alongside three distribution centers and a corporate office. BGC prides itself on offering a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental coverage, stock ownership, 401k, and educational scholarships.

Job Summary

Processes meat products, fulfills special customer requests; ensures market and seafood cases are kept full, rotated and fresh with prepackaged meats; promotes customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Processes meat by removing fat, tenderizing, grinding, and/or cutting to proper thickness and size.
• Cuts, weighs, packages, and labels product. Uses precision and non-precision hand tools to ensure sufficient product is available to customers.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares machinery and equipment for operation, ensuring proper function.
• Checks product for quality control and ensures food safety standards are met.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards.
• Provides friendly and customer service-oriented attitude, fulfilling customer requests for special cuts of meat.
• Maintains clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to safely work with sharp objects like knives and box cutters.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
• Effective communication skills with customers and partners.
• Ability to learn new systems, methods, and processes.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age.
• High school Diploma or GED and one or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education required.
• Food Handler certification required.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Continuously required to maintain a steady hand while manipulating objects and using fine finger movements.
• Continuously required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel, or squat.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 100 lbs.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Continuously exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges.
• Continuously exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Continuously exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Moderate to loud noise level.

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug-free, and alcohol-free environment for its partners and guests. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, or military status and any other trait protected by law.