**Job Duties/Essential Functions**
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Develops, coaches, counsels, and directs Meat Department personnel_
- Monitors employee performance and provides proactive feedback to promote teamwork and accountability
- Participates in the employment process by making recommendations for hiring, promotion, and termination
- Participates in Meat Department employee evaluations
- Responds to employee concerns using problem solving skills, tact, and discretion in accordance with the Costco Employee Agreement and other applicable regulations
- Approves timecards and other reports
- Implements and upholds proper Meat Department and general safety procedures and standards
- Logs sanitation procedures performed on daily report
- Complies with health code
- Follows safety and security procedures and reads labels for proper use and precautions of cleaning products
- Assists with stocking cases and follows department production procedures and standards for quality and consistency of finished product
- Follows Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) guidelines for cleaning and sanitation of all equipment
- Completes and complies with 11 Commandments of Quality Assurance, Food Safety Certification, and all safety training required by warehouse and Meat Department
- Assists in other departments of the warehouse as necessary
- Determines production requirements and participates in meat cutting
- Checks quality and consistency of finished merchandise and oversees merchandise presentation and merchandising
- Reviews sanitation log and checks for health code compliance
- Approves and submits physical inventory periodically and orders to buying office for equipment, merchandise and supplies
- Provides prompt and courteous customer service to members, employees, and vendors.
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Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery_**
- Computer, copier, phone, Band Saw, tenderiser, grinder, wheeled racks, wrapping machine and pressure washer.