Meat Department Team Lead
Location
Red Deer, AB | Canada
Job description
This position requires an individual who demonstrates a quality driven leadership style and is passionate about leading and developing people in a profitable business. This is also a hands-on role. The role focuses on the preparation and presentation of both meats and seafood for sale with abundant, appealing, fresh looking displays. This is also a very service orientated position providing courteous, friendly, knowledgeable and legendary service to customers and team members
Duties and Responsibilities:
- In communication with store manager you will be responsible for team member hiring, developing, terminations and holding your people accountable.
- Accountable for achieving margins, labor, inventory control, as set out in yearly budget.
- Accountable for ordering and merchandising.
- Great relationship with purchasing department to ensure specifications and pricing from approved suppliers is followed.
- Equipment maintenance and safe workplace, sanitation systems in place and followed.
- Execute great results to every customer that builds rapport and trust.
- All customer requests and questions are addressed and personally followed up on.
- Maintain food safety standards and all company procedures to ensure food safety.
- All cases and shelves throughout the department are clean, well-stocked and rotated.
- Ensure accurate retail pricing and signage.
- Tasters program being followed daily.
- Informed of new products introduced and share with the customers.
- Ensure back areas and coolers well maintained, organized and dated.
- All waste, department transfers, and store transfers documented immediately.
- Assist in monthly inventory.
- Aware of current sales, margins and action plan from team leaders.
- Proper receiving as per company guidelines followed.
- Recipes for marinated items followed for approved ingredients.
- Demonstrate proper use, care and maintenance of equipment.
- Packaging, wrapping and rotation followed.
- Assist in cross merchandise with other departments.
- Execute all cleaning and maintenance schedules.
- Attend all department, store and training meetings.
- Accept and check all products from receiver.
- Answer telephone with proper etiquette and urgency.
- Wash and sanitize utensils when necessary.
- Break, trim, bone, cut, scrape and platter various cuts of meat and seafood.
- Skewer meat, poultry items for kabobs.
- Grind meats with temperature tracking.
- Perform other duties delegated by team leaders and store leaders.
- Available for night and weekends.
Physical Requirements
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs. with proper lifting techniques.
- Ability to physically cut and prepare cuts of meat throughout each shift
Qualifications:
Skills & Knowledge
- Team player and believer of “it’s your business”, enthusiastic.
- Superior knowledge of primal cuts.
- Excellent merchandiser.
- Knowledge and experience with inventories, statements, margin and labor controls.
- Knowledge of cooking techniques for various cuts and product.
- Passion for fresh foods.
- Customer service orientated, and likes to create great experiences.
- Self-motivated and problem solver.
- Institutional meat or kitchen training, or relevant experience.
- Math skills.
- Familiar with digi scale operation.
- Sanitation certification.
Educational Requirements
- Some supervisory experience required
- Meat Cutting certification is considered and asset, and not required if the individual has 5 years of experience in meat cutting
Just like finishing a hard day's work on the farm, working at Sunterra will provide you with a sense of ownership, pride and the satisfaction of a job well done. You'll feel a sense of belonging when you join our growing Sunterra family as well as a sense of fulfillment as Full time and part-time Team Members will receive a discount of 50% off selected prepared foods when enjoyed in-store (these items vary by location).
The seeds of Sunterra took root on the Price family farm over forty years ago in Acme, AB. With gratitude for land that has been in their family for decades, the Price family decided to name their company after the very things that helped nourish their business - the sun and the earth - and Sunterra was born.
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