US Cutter, Bone In

Position Summary:

Responsible for portion and merchandising all bone-in meat products.

Employee Competencies:

Leading:

• Adapting

• Communicating Effectively

• Proactively Learning

Living the Culture:

• Serving Others

• Building Trust

• Valuing Differences

Thinking & Decision Making:

• Building Business Knowledge

• Making Continuous Improvements

• Building Customer Loyalty

Producing Results:

• Influencing Others

• Delivering High Quality Results

• Collaborating

Essential Functions:

• Works with supervisors and production managers to schedule production.

• Cleans, trims, slices, and portions subprimals of beef, pork, lamb and veal for future processing.

• Inspects meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove.

• Accurately read and comprehend all customer specific special instructions.

• Perform Quality Control checks and communicate with supervisors and manager any defects.

• Separates meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.

• Uses knives, cleavers, band saw and/or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.

• Weighs meats and tag containers for weight and contents.

• Follows company's detailed product specifications.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Must have working knowledge of production equipment.

• Demonstrates ability to portion all cuts of meat in an accurate and timely manner.

• Ability to reduce processing costs by cutting and sizing portions accurately with good yields as well as meeting customer specs.

• Ability to problem solve in terms of trimming and product substitutions.

• Ability to work in a fast paced, high pressure, challenging environment

• Must be a team player and possess a positive attitude.

• Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally, in English.

• Must demonstrate the ability to understand the Meat Buyer's Guide specifications as they relate to the company's internal product specifications.

• Ability to tie a standards butcher's knot for tying roasts and chops.

• Follows company's Quality Control procedures.

Equipment / Tools / Technology:

• Knife

• Cut Glove

• Band Saw

• Portion Scale

• Tenderizer

• Flattener

• Vacuum Packaging Machine

Educational & Experience Requirements

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Specify Type or Field of Study, if needed

Required

Preferred

High School / Equivalent

X

Minimum Years of Experience:

(Explain type of required or preferred experience)

Minimum of 2 years experience as a professional cutter. High-end meat processing experience strongly preferred.

In lieu of the specified education and experience requirements, a proven capability to perform the essential functions of the job, as demonstrated by an equivalent combination of education, training and/or relevant work experience may be considered