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Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
Key Responsibilities
- Whole-Carcass Processing: Demonstrated ability to break down whole beef carcasses, including sides and quarters, into primal, sub primal, and retail cuts.
- Professional Butchery: Expert knowledge of beef, pork, and other proteins, including fabrication, deboning, trimming, portioning, and specialty cuts.
- Slaughter Experience: Previous experience with humane livestock slaughter, carcass dressing, and processing is highly desirable.
- Yield Management: Maximize usable product, minimize waste, and maintain accurate cutting yields.
- Inventory & Forecasting: Manage meat inventories, production planning, purchasing, and forecasting using inventory management systems.
- Cost Controls: Monitor food costs, product yields, labor efficiency, and profitability.
- Quality & Food Safety: Maintain strict USDA, HACCP, sanitation, temperature-control, and food-handling standards applicable to the operation.
- Team Leadership: Train, coach, supervise, and develop team members in professional meat-cutting techniques and safe equipment operation.
- Production Management: Coordinate daily processing schedules, restaurant orders, and product distribution.
- Equipment Maintenance: Ensure proper operation, cleaning, and maintenance of saws, grinders, slicers, vacuum sealers, and other processing equipment.
Required Qualifications
- Proven professional experience as a butcher, meat cutter, or meat-processing supervisor.
- Strong experience processing whole beef carcasses and breaking down whole muscles.
- Extensive knowledge of beef anatomy, primal and sub primal cuts, and meat fabrication.
- Proficiency in knife skills, boning, trimming, and portion control.
- Previous management or team leadership experience.
- Understanding of meat yields, costing, inventory systems, and production forecasting.
- Knowledge of food safety regulations and sanitation requirements.
- Ability to work in a physically demanding, refrigerated processing environment.
- Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
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