MEAT MDSG/QUALITY ASSURANCE
Summary
The Meat Quality Assurance role at Kroger involves overseeing receiving inspections, enforcing quality specifications, and managing food safety and sanitation in a meat distribution center. The position requires coordinating with merchandising and procurement teams to ensure product quality, weight control, and effective shrink management.
- Essential Job Functions:
- Overall responsibility for the execution of the receiving inspection in the meat warehouse.
- Work with meat merchandising, deli merchandising and meat procurement to enforce quality specifications covering all incoming products, performingyield tests and filing product claims when necessary.
- Insure that the meat or deli merchandiser is involved in the disposition of suspect product, and that they are aware of the problem areas having anadverse affect on quality.
- Coordinate and communicate activities surrounding the proper handling of product under recall or withdrawal notices.
- Provide meat procurement with information related to quality levels of incoming products.
- Organize and maintain an accurate and up-to-date record keeping system.
- Insure weight control by taking product weight checks.
- Provide the Accounting Department information concerning bill backs to insure that proper deductions are made when appropriate.
- Maintain sanitation and bacteriological controls to insure maximum food safety.
- Both day and night operations are to be conducted to insure that predetermined quality levels and procedures are maintained through the totaldistribution function.
- Provide surveillance information to Meat Merchandising and Deli Merchandising to insure that proper rotation is maintained and product is shipped withminimum store-level shelf life.
- Monitor the accuracy of quality-related distribution center equipment to include scales and thermometers.
- Be aware of proper handling procedures for various products to insure maximum shelf life.
- Assist distribution center management in monitoring daily receiving procedures, handling, and slotting of product; notify perishable warehouse managerof any associates that need further training.
- Focus on shrink management in the distribution center.
- Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Desired Previous Job Experience
- Store Management
- Retail Meat Department Manager
- Bachelor's degree
- Computer skills - Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to take on tasks outside of their expertise.
- Strong oral defense skills
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to achieve objectives through others