MEAT CLERK

About the Role

Responsible for meat operation including 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 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 & Abilities

• 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 be seen as 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, and not be hasty or impetuous.
• 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

• Lift/Carry:
  • 10 lbs or less – Constantly
  • 11-20 lbs – Constantly
  • 21-50 lbs – Constantly
  • 51-100 lbs – Frequently
  • Over 100 lbs – Occasionally
• Activity:
  • Stand – Constantly
  • Walk – Frequently
  • Sit – Occasionally
  • Handling/Fingering – Constantly
  • Reach Outward – Frequently
  • Reach Above Shoulder – Frequently
  • Climb – Occasionally
  • Crawl – Occasionally
  • Squat or Kneel – Frequently
  • Bend – Frequently
• Push/Pull:
  • 12 lbs or less – Frequently
  • 13-25 lbs – Frequently
  • 26-40 lbs – Frequently
  • 41-100 lbs – Frequently
• Other Physical Requirements:
  • 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) (e.g., back belt when lifting and handling heavy objects)

Work Environment

Grocery store setting with no travel required. Flexible work schedule.