Meat Clerk

Additional Considerations (if Any)

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Job Description

Job Title: Meat Clerk
Department: Meat
FLSA: Non-Exempt

• General Function: Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service. Wraps, trims, stocks cases, and receives merchandise in the Meat and/or Seafood Department.

Core Competencies

• Partnerships: Grows relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Growth Mindset: Seeks opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Results Oriented: Achieves goals and meets expectations.
• Customer Focused: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates integrity and respect in all interactions.

Reporting Relations

• Accountable and Reports to: District Store Director; Store Manager; Assistant Managers of Operations, Perishables, Health Wellness Home; Meat Department Manager; Assistant Meat Department Manager; Seafood Department Manager; Assistant Seafood Department Manager; Service Managers
• Positions that Report to you: Under certain circumstances, part-time stockers could receive direction from the person in this position

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service:
• Escorts customers to the products they're looking for
• Secures products that are out of reach
• Loading or unloading heavy items
• Making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests
• Enhancing the shopping experience
• Answers the telephone:
• Promptly when called upon
• Provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call including taking customer orders
• Works with co-workers as a team:
• To ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment
• Wraps, weighs, and labels product:
• Reviews the status and appearance of the food for freshness
• Stocks cases or rotates product
• Trims on steaks, roasts, and chops:
• In preparing these retail cuts, including seafood for traying
• Prepares and organizes seafood items for display:
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures
• Ensures the work area is always clean and neat
• Reports out-of-stock products:
• To appropriate personnel
• Trays, slices, tenderizes, and grinds product:
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time

Secondary Duties And Responsibilities

• Prepares some signs for the department:
• Orders replenishment merchandise as directed by management:
• Aids in other areas of store as needed:
• Performs other job related duties and special projects as required:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Worker Characteristics

• Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or verbal instructions:
• Ability to do simple addition and subtraction:
• Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions:
• Write identifying information:
• Request supplies orally or in writing:

Education And Experience

• Education: High School or equivalent experience
• Experience: Six months or less of similar or related work

Physical Requirements

• Must be physically able to exert up to 85 pounds of force (energy exerted) occasionally;
• Exert up to 40 pounds of force frequently;
• Exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects;
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), and field of vision;
• Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions

• Continually exposed to a cool environment and dampness.
• Frequent noise from the saws, exposure to cleaning solvents, and possibility of electrical shock.
• This is a fast-paced work environment.

Equipment Used To Perform Job

• Knives,
• Grinders,
• Patty maker,
• Tenderizer,
• Slicer,
• Pallet jack,
• Tumbler,
• Wrapping system,
• Rotisserie.

Contacts

• Deals with customers on a daily basis and vendors/suppliers on an as needed basis.

Pay

The anticipated hourly starting wage for this position is $11.50 to $14.40 depending on experience.

Schedule

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