MEAT CLERK

About the role

Responsible for meat operation including but not limited to preparing, storing, cutting, cleaning, and serving meat.

Responsibilities

• Monitor food distribution and ensure that guidelines are followed.
• Clean and sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, and facilities.
• Maintain coolers, cases, and displays by keeping them stocked.
• Observe scheduled shift hours as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
• Give all customers friendly, courteous, and prompt service.
• Perform specific tasks as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
• Maintain good communication with the meat manager.
• Share responsibility for controlling shrink.
• Properly record all hours worked. Verify and sign the time ticket report.
• Monitor food preparation and serving techniques to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
• Assist in recording and maintaining accurate bookkeeping systems for weekly and monthly meat purchases.
• Assist in maintaining proper records to control shrink through inventory and ordering.
• Assist in inventorying all products on hand before preparing a meat order.
• Assist meat manager in taking a four-week period meat inventory.
• Ensure that product is being rotated when received and stocked.
• Ensure that all meat coolers and meat cases are running at the proper temperature.
• Ensure that proper safety procedures are being used.
• Properly clean and maintain meat department, coolers, cases, and equipment.

Qualifications

• Less than high school education.
• No prior experience necessary.

Skills

• Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for actions.
• Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Adaptability – Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
• Autonomy – Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Oral Communication – Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Customer Oriented – Ability to take care of customers’ needs while following company procedures.
• Decision Making – Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Friendly – Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
• Honesty/Integrity – Ability to be truthful and credible in the workplace.
• Interpersonal – Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
• Organized – Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Patience – Ability to act calmly under stress and strain.
• Relationship Building – Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers.
• Reliability – The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Responsible – Ability to be held accountable or answerable for conduct.
• Team Building – Ability to convince a group of people to work toward a goal.
• Time Management – Ability to utilize available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
• Basic math skills.
• Access to a phone at all times.

Physical Demands

• Standing: Constantly (more than 66% of the time).
• Walking: Frequently (33% - 66% of the time).
• Sitting: Occasionally (up to 33% of the time).
• Lifting/Carrying: 10 lbs or less – Constantly; 11-20 lbs – Constantly; 21-50 lbs – Constantly; 51-100 lbs – Frequently; Over 100 lbs – Occasionally.
• Handling/Fingering: Constantly.
• Reach Outward: Frequently.
• Reach Above Shoulder: Frequently.
• Climbing: Occasionally.
• Crawling: Occasionally.
• Squatting or Kneeling: Frequently.
• Bending: Frequently.
• Pushing/Pulling: 12 lbs or less – Frequently; 13-25 lbs – Frequently; 26-40 lbs – Frequently; 41-100 lbs – Frequently.

Other physical requirements include:

• Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception).
• Sense of Sound (Must be able to hear emergency sirens such as fire alarms).
• Sense of Smell.
• Sense of Touch.
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including agreeing to wear a back belt when lifting and handling heavy objects.

Schedule

Flexible, part-time schedule with no travel required.