Meatcutting Worker

JOB SUMMARY: The foundation for success of the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) mission is our people. It is DeCA’s goal to have a workforce that is representative of the nation’s diverse cultures and backgrounds.  We strive for a work environment of world-class enterprise leaders and an engaged, highly motivated, and capable workforce with a results oriented performance culture. Organization Statement:The DeCA operates a worldwide commissary system that provides quality grocery products at cost to active duty military personnel and retirees, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and their families. The agency employs about 18,000 people and its annual sales exceed $5 billion.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Must be a United States citizen.
• Application materials must be received by 11:59PM EST on the closing date.

DUTIES:Back to top • Assists journeyman meatcutters by performing the simpler tasks when processing beef, pork, veal, and lamb into retail and ready to eat cuts for sale to patrons.
• Trays, wraps, weighs, and prices cuts using automatic or manual wrapping machines.
• Ensures correct prices by referencing price lists.
• Replenishes stock in display cases and rotates product to ensure wholesomeness.
• Uses, cleans, maintains, and sharpens a variety of hand tools and power tools.
• Cleans and sanitizes work area to maintain required standards of cleanliness and sanitation. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:Back to top Per OPM Qualification System for Trades and Labor Occupations, http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/x-118c/index.asp, the applicants experience, education and training must show enough knowledge, skills and abilities to demonstrate the potential to successfully perform the duties of the position. Under this system, how applicants gained their skill and knowledge, or the length of time they have spent in a line of work, are not as important as the fact that they have the required ability or potential to do the job.  This job has one critical element, called the screen-out element (SOE). Applicants who clearly fail to meet the lowest acceptable requirements in the SOE will be rated ineligible without further review of their application.   Examples of qualifying experience include:  Working in the retail meat department traying, wrapping and weighing meat for sale to patrons. Cutting, trimming and boning meat. Using hand tools and operating powered meat cutting equipment.
Conditions of Employment:  • Work Schedule: Part time not to exceed 64 hours biweekly
• Tour of Duty: Irregular Schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays 
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Costs: ARE NOT Authorized
• Position Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
• Security Requirements: Not Applicable
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Temporary Duty (TDY) Travel: Occasionally
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-Exempt
• Bargaining Unit Position: Yes
• Drug Testing: Not Required
• Physical Requirement: Walks and stands continuously while working.  Constant grasping of chilled or frozen meat products.  Frequently lifts, pushes, and pulls pieces and bulk boxes of meat weighing 50 to 100 pounds; assistance provided with hand trucks and dollies.  Works in an area where the temperature does not exceed 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  Occasionally exposed to temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit or colder.  Cold weather clothing, protective equipment, and special clothes provided.  Subject to cuts and injuries from knives, power equipment, and danger of falling on wet, slippery floors, and subject to injury from lifting heavy objects.  May occasionally work outdoors to assist with handling.
• Selective Service Requirement: All male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered with the selective service system.  Please visit https://www.sss.gov for more information.
• Obligated Position: NoOther Notes:PROBATIONARY PERIOD: Applicants selected from this announcement may be required to serve a one year probationary period.VACANCY SPECIFIC INFORMATION:• Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement upon its closing for up to 90 days. HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED: Specifically you will be evaluated on the following job elements:

• Ability to do the work of a Meatcutting Worker without more than normal supervision (SOE).
• Work practices.
• Technical practices.
• Ability to interpret instructions, specifications, etc.
• Ability to use and maintain hand tools.
• Ability to use and maintain power tools.
• Knowledge of materials.
• Dexterity and safety.
REVIEW OF APPLICATION DOCUMENTS (For All Applicants): To determine your qualifications, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the questions. The score you receive is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the job elements required.  If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities. Please follow all instructions carefully as errors or omissions may affect your rating. Certification of Information Accuracy:  I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information submitted by me in this application, supporting materials and/or information provided in any interview associated with the examination process are true and accurate; and that misrepresenting my experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information, may be grounds for not hiring me, disciplinary action or termination; and that false or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 USC 1001).
Country: USA, State: Rhode Island, City: Newport, Company: Defense Commissary Agency.