Assistant Meat Manager at Restaurant Depot
Harrisburg, PA
About the Job
Assistant Meat Manager
FULL-TIME
$16/hr
Responsible for receiving the product and ensuring that aisles/freezers and refrigerators are stocked, labeled, clean, and delivered product is packed out, and proper customer service is provided.
Essential functions:
- Ensuring proper customer service and working to develop relationships with large customers.
- Supervising all activities in the meat department including product placement, rotation, signage, and displays.
- Responsible for overall department appearance, cleanliness, and adherence to both government and corporate ordinances.
- Must maintain records as required. In the role of meat manager, he/she will oversee the Assistant Meat Manager (if applicable), Meat Supervisors (if applicable) and Stockers to assure that the meat department is operating in a manner that adheres to company standards.
- Developing schedules, monitoring performance, and recommending the proper discipline as appropriate.
- Training employees in job responsibilities and safe operating procedures
- Interviewing candidates and recommending for hires.
- Disciplines employees when necessary and recommends terminations.
- Ensuring that employees are performing the proper inspections to meet HACCP regulations as well as conducting periodic HACCP audits.
- Reviewing inventory for product rotation on a daily basis to prevent shrinkage and damages.
- Ensuring that shelf pricing is correct and reflects the most recent pricing and market conditions.
- Supervising the receiving of all meat products and ensuring that the proper paperwork is completed.
- Maintaining accurate computer inventory levels by having physical inventories performed on a regular basis and adjustments made.
- Maintaining refrigerated equipment and making sure maintenance contracts and schedules are followed.
- Supervising the ordering of meat products from vendors on a regular basis to assure we have competitive pricing and minimal shrink due to spoilage and not have too much inventory on hand.
- Making sure all the employees in the department can work the equipment such as Toledo scale and Dennison label machine.
- Coordinating that the pallets stored in the racks have the proper block and date tags.
- Follows program to maintain the cleanliness of the area by a regular maintenance schedule of scrubbing, and pulling out pallets and cleaning underneath.
- Ensuring that excess inventory not slotted on floor is stacked in overhead racks in close proximity to where it is sold or stored in freezers/refrigerators.
- Assuring that trash is removed from floor and properly handled.
- Making sure that low stock/out of stock information is communicated to the Inventory Controller after carefully checking the system and rack for product.
- Maintaining that all signage is correct and that the flyers prices are reflected on the product.
- Coordinating proper merchandising of aisles (logical adjacencies, proper holding power, space allocation) and creatively merchandises and setting up impulse areas for merchandising.
- Performing additional duties, responsibilities and projects as assigned.
- Performing weekly self audits of the Meat department.
Schedule
Shift start: 6:00AM or 8:00AM
Shift length: 9.5 - 11 hours
5 days/week, must be available any day
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision insurance - available after 90 days
- Paid time off
- 401(k) plan
Qualifications
- Must pass drug screen
- Can lift 50 lbs
- Must be at least 18+ years old
Knowledge of HACCP systems is desirable
Prior experience in produce department including ordering and receiving products
Excellent communication skills
Creative merchandising skills
Ability to work in a refrigerated environment (30 degrees) for extended periods of time
At least 4 years experience in customer service
Computer literacy
About Restaurant Depot
Restaurant Depot is a Members-Only Wholesale Cash & Carry Foodservice Supplier. Their mission is to be your one-stop shop for savings, selection, and service, seven days a week. They have been supplying independent food businesses with quality products from large cash and carry warehouse stores since 1990. They became the leading low-cost alternative to other foodservice suppliers by eliminating the overhead of a traditional distributor, focusing on the needs of independent foodservice operators and offering free membership.
