Job Description
Job DescriptionMake Precision Your Craft
Join a team where accuracy, speed, and food safety define success. In this role, you’ll turn whole and sub-primal cuts into exact portions for customers, using professional tools in a cold, fast-moving production setting.
What You'll Do
- Cut, trim, debone, and portion beef and other proteins to customer specs and production plans.
- Operate knives, band saws, grinders, and other equipment safely and efficiently.
- Deliver uniform cuts that meet size, weight, and visual standards.
- Follow cutting procedures and order requirements accurately.
- Inspect meats for freshness, quality, defects, and presentation.
- Remove excess fat, bones, and non-usable components while reducing waste.
- Weigh and label portions precisely for further processing, storage, or shipment.
- Maintain strict USDA, HACCP, food-safety, sanitation, and company quality practices.
- Keep tools, surfaces, and process areas clean and sanitized throughout the shift.
- Adhere to safe knife handling and equipment operation at all times.
- Hit daily productivity and quality targets and help teammates do the same.
- Communicate proactively with supervisors regarding priorities, quality, and equipment issues.
- Pitch in on additional production tasks as needed.
Must-Haves
- Experience as a Meat Cutter, Butcher, Meat Trimmer, or Meat Processing Worker preferred.
- Background in beef cutting or other protein processing preferred.
- Advanced knife handling and meat-cutting proficiency.
- Ability to thrive in a high-volume food-processing environment.
- Capable of standing for long periods and performing repetitive tasks.
- Strength to lift, carry, and move product and supplies as required.
- Detail-driven with a strong commitment to quality.
- Consistent adherence to food-safety, sanitation, and workplace safety procedures.
- Reliable attendance, solid work ethic, and teamwork mindset with the ability to work independently.
Nice-to-Haves
- Beef cutting and trimming expertise
- Meat fabrication experience
- Deboning proficiency
- Portion control knowledge
- Knife handling mastery
- Quality control and meat inspection
- Food safety and sanitation practices
- Experience in a USDA processing environment
- Production and packaging familiarity
- Accuracy in weighing and measurement
- Waste reduction methods
- Operation of meat-processing machinery
Physical Demands
- Extended standing in refrigerated/cold processing areas.
- Frequent, repetitive hand, wrist, and arm motions for cutting and trimming.
- Safe use of knives and powered equipment.
- Lifting and moving meat products and materials as needed.
Work Environment
Work in a professional meat-processing and production facility where excellence in food safety, sanitation, product quality, and workplace safety is expected. San Lorenzo Foods identifies itself as a USDA-approved meat processor and provides meat products and custom-processing/prepped-ingredient services.
Proficiency Checklist
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- Butcher
- Deboning
- Knife Skills
- Meat Cutter
- Meat Fabrication
- Beef Cutting and Trimming