Raven Windsgrace
Colorado Springs,CO
Summary
Dynamic Meat Department Manager at DeCA with proven expertise in cutting techniques and staff leadership. Recognized as the best commissary agency-wide in 2024, demonstrating exceptional schedule management and adherence to sanitation standards. Committed to delivering quality service and optimizing operations for enhanced customer satisfaction.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Meat Department Manager
DeCA
06.2022 - 03.2025
- Plans, organizes, and directs the meat department operations Supervises and provides direction to subordinate employees within the department
- Ensures workload requirements are met to include establishing prices for all meat products sold
- Inspects equipment and checks temperature level regularly Conducts frequent inspections of work areas to ensure regulatory compliance with sanitary and safety policies
- Maintains production records and reports
- Voted 2nd best commissary agency wide 2023
- Voted best commissary agency wide 2024
Meat Cutter
DeCA
03.2020 - 07.2022
- Cut and prepare special meat orders to provide special cuts requested by customers.
- Operate meat department; order, receive, store, process, display, price and inventory of fresh, smoked and frozen meats sold, and maintain production record and report.
- Conduct inspections in meat processing area, storage area and display cases to ensure regulatory compliance with sanitary and safety policies.
- Cut and prepare beef and pork primals and subprimals into the greatest number of desirable cuts with a minimum of waste.
- Establish prices for meat products sold through the meat department Use proper angle-cutting techniques. Ensure meat products conform to contract standards and specifications.
- Ensure merchandising standards are met using the Uniform Retail Meat Identity Standard.
- Advise patrons on storage life, temperature and thawing times, and cooking procedures.
- Verify deliveries against requisitions by conducting meat cutting tests, computes markup percentage, and checks grades/classes of meat.
- Sharpen, maintain, clean and use hand tools common to the trade. Operate grinding equipment to produce ground beef conduct fat tests.
- Use powered equipment such as knives, electric saws, slicers, grinders and tenderizer.
- Cut special orders, such as varying types and sizes of steaks and roasts, to include complex special orders such as crown roasts.
- Knowledge of muscle, cell and seam structure of different kinds of meats and bone structures Recognize lower yield prima/subprimal cuts and adjust them to higher priced cuts to prevent loss.
Meat Wrapper
DeCA
06.2008 - 03.2020
- Assist customers with whatever they may need such as locating merchandise in the store, taking a special order for future pick up, or cutting on request anything they ask for.
- Making enough grind for the day which includes 96%, 93%, 80%, ground chuck at 80%, hamburger patties at both 93% and 80%, ground chill during the colder months, and sliders at 93% and 80% during the spring.
- Having to fat test all the grind to unsure that it’s at the appropriate levels.
- Assist the meat cutters with simple tasks such as trimming and cutting primals, Putting the meat in a tray in the more presentable way to help it sell, and informing them as to what needs to be cut.
- Help management with ordering to make sure that the product would be both available for customers yet not excessive to where it would expire before it could be sold.
- Assist in inventory management totaling around $60,000. Reserve the loads of pork, beef,
Education
Bachelor of Science - Video Game Design
Westwood
Denver, CO06-2009
Skills
- Cutting techniques
- Sanitation standards
- Staff leadership
- Schedule management
Timeline
Meat Department Manager
DeCA
06.2022 - 03.2025
Meat Cutter
DeCA
03.2020 - 07.2022
Meat Wrapper
DeCA
06.2008 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science - Video Game Design
Westwood
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