Meat Wrapper - Calgary Co-op, Cochrane

Role overview

This is your opportunity to embrace a culture that reflects a sense of pride and ownership in work. Our Co-operative demonstrates mutual respect for the team and our members and shows care towards the community. We care for our employees and create strong teams in collaborative environments.

The Meat Wrapper is responsible to ensure that customer service is provided through maintaining a safe and efficient operation while adhering to Company policies, procedures and standards. The Meat Wrapper position reports directly to the Meat Supervisor/Meat Manager.

Day-to-day

Main responsibilities of the Meat Wrapper include the following daily duties:

• Provides customer service and maintains positive customer relations through the proper handling of customer questions, comments, request and complaints. Effectively works in a diverse team environment in a proficient and friendly manner.
• Plans and performs all aspects of meat wrapping functions including but not limited to, stocking, displays and facing in an efficient and organized manner. Ensures display presentation and stock levels are maintained.
• Handles merchandise ensuring quality, minimizing damages, and markdowns. Provides substitutions and ensures price integrity.
• Performs general cleanup duties such as cleaning spills and display fixtures to ensure a neat and organized department. Duties include hosing and sanitizing the department. Responsible for keeping the sales floor and back stock area clean of cardboard and debris, as well as disposal of garbage.
• Performs duties following established Occupational Health and Safety, Food Safety, and Environmental regulations and policies to ensure the health and safety of all staff and customers.
• Ensures the proper care, use and maintenance of equipment and tools. Reports repair requirements to the Meat Supervisor, Meat or Duty Manager.
• Responsible for all aspects of ordering merchandise and supplies.
• Responsible for all aspects of receiving including reviewing/verifying invoices, returns, transfers, claims and proper storage of products.
• Assists in organizing and conducting inventory.
• While assisting a customer, provided they have been trained, can use a knife and use the meat grinders to provide any ground product to a customer should a meat cutter be unavailable.

What you'll bring

Candidates must meet the following minimum qualifications and essential skills:

• Grade 9 or acceptable combination of education and experience
• Related retail experience, including the provision of customer service
• Must be fluent in English (CLBA - Canadian Language Benchmark Assessment score of 5 or higher)
• Previous retail or related experience

The following skills and abilities will set you apart from others:

• Previous meat wrapping or related retail meat experience
• Knowledge of ordering and receiving procedures

Employees must successfully complete and maintain the following course:

• Foodwise #14 (within one year)