
Meat Team Leader
Cooperstown, NYJob$24–35.05/hrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Meat Team Leader manages daily meat department operations, including fresh meat, deli, frozen, and custom-cut areas where applicable. The role oversees associates, ordering, inventory control, training, and department financial results while maintaining product quality, sanitation, safety, and customer service standards. It also includes cutting meat and ensuring company, state, and federal policies and guidelines are followed.
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Full job description
Pay Range: $24.00- $35.05
SUMMARY
Provides fast, friendly, helpful and efficient service to all Price Chopper customers. Manages the day-to-day operation of the meat department inclusive of fresh meat case, deli, frozen case and custom cut department (where applicable) to include achieving budgeted financial results, ordering product/merchandise, human resource/training, and inventory control measures. Ensures that all corporate policies and procedures are adhered to at all times. Maintains excellent customer relations (both internally and externally) within the meat department on an on-going basis by offering friendly service and a courteous attitude. Satisfies the customer by offering a fresh high quality product at all times to promote optimal opportunity for sales.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Consistently work to provide fast, friendly, helpful and efficient customer service at all times.
Responsible for proper handling and merchandising of all meat products according to company policy.
Display and express a complete knowledge of all meat products to the customer.
Responsible for smiling, making eye contact and thanking customer upon fulfilling customer's request.
Maintain a neat, clean and organized workstation, according to 5S standards, at all times.
Responsible for achieving all budgeted financial figures for the Meat Department as stipulated in the store profit plan (i.e.: CTO budgeted sales, gross profit, shrink, inventory levels, wrap and payroll).
Manage the day-to-day operation of the Meat Department, including scheduling, training and other administrative duties.
Order meat products and ensure that inventory control methods are in place.
Responsible for cutting meat using knives, saws, cubers, slicers and grinders. Maintain corporate safety standards throughout the meat department.
Oversee all Meat Department associates and ensure that all company policies and procedures are adhered to at all times. Responsible for training of all meat associates in accordance with all corporate and state policies and procedures.
Responsible to maintain all corporate assets within the meat department.
Adhere to proper sanitation and temperature guidelines including corporate, state and federal inspection guidelines.
Maintain grind logs, and meat logs consistent with store policy.
Responsible for the store at the need and discretion of the Store Manager.
Control shrink through adherence to related policies and procedures.
Perform other related duties as assigned by management and adhere to all company policies and procedures.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must be at least 18 years of age. Ability to manage others and demonstrate follow-through to achieve desired results and objectives.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Satisfactory performance reviews. Strong communication skills. Basic computer skills. High School Degree or equivalent. 3+ years of related experience.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Exposure to Cold Environment Constant 5-8 Hours
Grasping/Finger Movement & Dexterity- Left/Right Hands Constant 5-8 Hours
Lifting Constant 5-8 Hours up to 75lbs
Lifting Frequent 3-5 Hours up to 100lbs
Lifting Occasional 1-3 Hours up to 100lbs
Lifting Occasional 1-3 Hours up to 10lbs
Lifting Occasional 1-3 Hours up to 25lbs
Pivoting Constant 5-8 Hours
Pushing/Pulling Frequent 3-5 Hours up to 75lbs
Pushing/Pulling Occasional 1-3 Hours up to 2400lbs
Squatting/Kneeling Frequent 3-5 Hours
Standing Constant 5-8 Hours
Walking Constant 5-8 Hours
Twisting Constant 5-8 Hours
EQUIPMENT USED
Our Company does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, affection or sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, liability for military service, status as a veteran, gender identity or expression, genetic information, pregnancy, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Should your hours and availability better fit the needs of another store or desired shift, we may consider your application for another location or shift.
How this job compares
Set against the 9,213 open Team Lead jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$24–35.05/hr
- New York median$19–21/hr157 hourly ranges
- US median$19–22/hr1,853 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.53/hr, is 49% above the New York median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the top quarter of Team Lead hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 477 open Team Lead jobs in New York and 9,213 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Team Lead postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (3,979 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,738 of the 9,213 open Team Lead jobs (30%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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