Meatcutter

Description:

The primary purpose of a Meatcutter Leader is to Assist full performance meatcutters by performing the simpler tasks when processing beef, pork, veal, and lamb into retail and ready-to-eat cuts for sale to patrons. in a Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) facility.

Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

Requirements:

You must meet qualifications and stated requirements by the announcement closing date. Per the OPM Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations, how you gained the skill and/or knowledge or the length of time you have spent in this line of work is not as important as what you can do and that you have the required ability or potential to successfully perform the duties of this position. Your resume should show your specific knowledge, skill, and abilities for this position in relation to each of the elements being measured.

Examples of related/qualifying experience:

• Applying a full range of meat cutting techniques to include special order cuts of steaks and roasts (crown roasts)
• Using hand tools and operating powered meat cutting equipment
• Cleaning and sanitizing tools, equipment and work areas to maintain required standards
• Assigning work to other employees in the meat department
• Providing training to other employees in the meat department. You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
  
  Physical requirements: (1) Continuously stand and walk. (2) Lift, push, and pull pieces and bulk boxes of meat weighing 50-100 pounds or more with the use of hand trucks and dollies. You will attest to your ability to perform these physical requirements in the Questionnaire.
  
  As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate what you can do against what the work requires (job element method). This job has one critical element, called the screen-out element (SOE). The SOE addresses the critical knowledge, skill, and abilities essential to satisfactory job performance. Applicants who clearly fail to meet the lowest acceptable requirement in the SOE are rated ineligible and receive no further consideration. The job elements for this job are:
  
  
  
  Overtime: Occasional
  Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Nonexempt
  Bargaining Unit Status: Covered
  Obligated Position: No
  Reemployed Annuitants Considered: No, DoD criteria not met.
  Work environment: Work in areas where the temperature ranges from minus 10 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. May be subject to temperature changes based on opening and closing doors, working on loading docks, outside, and in refrigerated rooms. May be exposed to hot or cold weather, damp conditions, or drafty conditions. There is a danger of minor cuts, scrapes, bruises or heat sealer burns. Subject to cuts and injuries from knives and power equipment. Danger of falling on wet, slippery floors.
  Recruitment/Relocation Incentives Offered: No
  Telework eligible: No
  Remote work eligible: No