Meat Department Manager
Manage all meat department operations including supervising staff, forecasting demand, ensuring proper meat processing and display, and maintaining sanitation and safety standards.
Responsibilities
Directing all department activities and providing administrative and technical supervision for meatcutters, meat cutting workers, and other personnel engaged in the various tasks associated with Meat Department operations.
Forecasting product demand.
Ensuring that all resale meats are trimmed, sorted, properly cut, packaged, rotated, priced, and displayed in a professional and attractive manner.
Ensuring adequate supplies of processed meats and vendor packaged meats to meet customer demand at all times.
Using the DeCA automated cutting test program to establish prices, conduct price changes, prepare price and cost/mark-up lists, and perform inventory.
Designing and/or resetting promotional and seasonal displays.
Inspecting and ensuring the department processing areas, display cases, and storage rooms remain neat, orderly, and sanitary, and comply with current sanitation and safety regulations.
Inspecting equipment and initiating required maintenance.
Ensuring everyone follows proper safety practices while using power tools, knives, grinding equipment, etc.
Work Conditions
Most of the work is performed in the store display area, which is well lighted and maintained at a comfortable temperature.
May be exposed to unusually cold temperatures in the receiving, storage and meat processing areas.
May be exposed to differing temperatures when storing items in or retrieving them from refrigerated rooms.
There is a danger of injuries resulting from using electric meat processing equipment, lifting heavy products, or slipping on wet floors.
Requirements
Qualifications
You must meet qualifications and requirements by the announcement closing date.
Specialized Experience
Demonstrated knowledge of retail procurement and distribution methods; principles, procedures, and techniques of retail food merchandising and retail food store management, and developments in commercial retail food store items, equipment, and practices.
Examples of creditable qualifying specialized experience include:
- Managing a commissary store, supermarket, or similar type of commercial retail food store
- Managing a department in a retail food store
- Planning, standardizing, or controlling operations in an assigned group of retail food stores
- Developing, interpreting, or applying policies, procedures, and operating standards for use in a retail food store
- Providing technical advice on merchandising and operational matters pertaining to grocery, meats, and produce supplies, as well as front-end operations
Education Requirements
Education used to qualify for this position, in whole or in part, must have equipped you with the knowledge and ability to perform the work of the position, as evidenced by on-the-job-training in food retail management or an internship or practicum in food retail management.
Transcripts are required if relying on education to qualify.
Grade-Specific Requirements
For GS-7:
- (A) One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-5 grade level OR
- (B) One full year of graduate level education with major study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or other fields related to the position; or superior academic achievement, OR
- (C) A combination of specialized experience and education
For GS-8:
- (A) One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-6 grade level OR
- (B) One and one-half years of graduate level education with major study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or other fields related to the position, OR
- (C) A combination of specialized experience and education
For GS-9:
- (A) One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-7 grade level OR
- (B) Master's or equivalent degree, or two full years of progressively higher graduate level education leading to such a degree, or LL.B. or J.D. (if related) with major study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or other fields related to the position, OR
- (C) A combination of specialized experience and education
For GS-10:
- (A) One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-8 grade level OR
- (B) Two and one-half years of progressively higher graduate level education leading to such a degree with major study in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or other fields related to the position, OR
- (C) A combination of specialized experience and education
Physical Requirements
- Lift, push, pull, carry, and handle commissary products weighing up to 40 pounds unassisted and occasionally over 40 pounds with assistance.
- Stand, stoop, kneel, bend, and climb for prolonged periods.
Time-in-Grade Requirements
- For GS-7: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-5
- For GS-8: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-6
- For GS-9: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-7
- For GS-10: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service at or equivalent to GS-8
Competencies
As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your possession of these competencies:
- Commissary Operations
- Interpersonal Skills
- Safety Procedures
- Supervision
Benefits
Benefits
- PCS is authorized (relocation assistance)
- May be eligible for foreign area allowances like COLA and home leave for overseas positions
- Positions in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and Hawaii are eligible for nonforeign area Cost of Living Allowance (COLA), which is exempt from federal income tax
- Part of the Commissary Career Program (CCP) with potential pay retention for downgrades
- Health and retirement benefits through federal employment
Additional Info
Locations
- Fort Rucker, Alabama
- Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
- Little Rock AFB, Arkansas
- Yuma, Arizona
- Camp Pendleton, California
- March AFB, California
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California
- San Diego, California
- Travis AFB, California
- Hurlburt Field, Florida
- Jacksonville, Florida
- MacDill AFB, Florida
- Patrick AFB, Florida
- Pensacola, Florida
- Fort Benning, Georgia
- Andersen Air Base, Guam
- Santa Rita, Guam
- Hickam AFB, Hawaii
- Kaneohe, Hawaii
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
- Scott AFB, Illinois
- Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana
- McConnell AFB, Kansas
- Fort Campbell, Kentucky
- Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
- Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Fort Detrick, Maryland
- Columbus AFB, Mississippi
- Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
- Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Jacksonville, North Carolina
- Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina
- Offutt AFB, Nebraska
- McGuire AFB, New Jersey
- Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
- Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
- Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
- Charleston AFB, South Carolina
- Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Shaw AFB, South Carolina
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Fort Bliss, Texas
- Fort Hood, Texas
- Hill AFB, Utah
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Fort Eustis, Virginia
- Fort Myer, Virginia
- Langley AFB, Virginia
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Quantico, Virginia
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Bangor, Washington
- McChord AFB, Washington
- Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington
- Camp Foster, Japan
- Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station, Japan
- Kadena Air Base Okinawa, Japan
- Yokosuka, Japan
- Yokota Air Base, Japan
- Camp Humphreys, South Korea
Additional Information
- This position is part of the Commissary Career Program (CCP)
- PCS is authorized
- Initial overseas tour lengths vary from 12 to 36 months, limited to 5 continuous years
- May be eligible for foreign area allowances like COLA and home leave
- Drug-Free Federal Workplace - marijuana use prohibited even if legal in state
- Position requires background check
- Overtime: Occasional
- Bargaining Unit Status: Not covered
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
- Recruitment/Relocation Incentives Offered: None
- Telework eligible: No
- Remote work: No
- Travel required: Minimal
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