
Meat Department Leader
Arvada, COJob$30.93/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Meat Department Leader plans, organizes, trains and directs department associates while performing production and customer service functions. The role oversees merchandising, product quality and rotation, temperature logs, department goals, and employee development. It also supervises and coaches direct reports, supports customer relations, and helps implement company initiatives and policies.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Plan, organize, train and direct Meat department associates; perform production and customer service functions; maximize store sales and profits. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Develop maximum customer relations through friendliness and courtesy and implementation of all company policies. Be alert and assist in store security. Be perceptive and handle customer complaints.
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Keep department temperature logs accurately updated and maintained. Train and follow up with Meat department associates on temperature logs to guarantee accurately recorded temperatures.
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Perform and direct others in pricing and displaying of merchandise. Maintain proper signage, product rotation, freshness, quantity, quality and proper space allocation for merchandise.
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Provide input on department budgets, goals and results.
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Train and develop all Meat department employees, insuring that proper emphasis on customer courtesy and productivity is developed and that the technical skills learned are properly utilized.
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Implement company programs and adhere to company policies and procedures, particularly in the area of maintenance of a work environment free of unlawful harassment or discrimination.
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Make recommendations regarding the hiring, firing, disciplining, demoting, transferring and evaluating of all meat department associates.
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Demonstrate the ability and desire to promote, communicate and implement company initiatives and process improvements to direct reports in a positive manner.
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Demonstrate aptitude to manage people and organize workloads.
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Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports.
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Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
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Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
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Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
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Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
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Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
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Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
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Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
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Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
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Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
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Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
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Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
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Willing to work weekends and holidays.
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Effective written and oral communication skills.
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Ability to make intelligent decisions quickly.
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Able to tactfully and calmly handle stressful situations and make a positive impression on associates and customers.
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Possess abilities and skills for effective production, merchandising, and customer services related to preparation and sale of products.
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Understanding of all key components of department operations.
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Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to employment practices, safety, and food handling.
Desired
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Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to employment practices, safety, food handling.
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Meat work experience or similar experience in food preparation.
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Past work record reflects dependability and integrity.
$30.93 - $30.93 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 1,436 open Retail Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$30.93/hr
- Colorado median$20–26/hr28 hourly ranges
- US median$18–21/hr799 hourly ranges
This rate, $30.93/hr, is 31% above the Colorado median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the top quarter of Retail Supervisor hourly ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 35 open Retail Supervisor jobs in Colorado and 1,436 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Burlington4 open
- Kroger Family of Companies (this employer)4 open
- Vail Resorts3 open
- Experience
- Retail Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (819 postings).
- Education
- 1 of the 1,436 open Retail Supervisor jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 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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