Meat Clerk

About the role

Wrap and price product, service customers, and maintain meat display cases. Prepare general and value-added meat entrées, grind hamburger, receive meat deliveries, and perform sanitation duties while maintaining excellent customer service.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous attention to customer needs at the service counter.
• Commit to the “Golden Rule” and work with other associates to build a strong meat team.
• Achieve high associate morale by working in a style that is Respectful, Supportive, and Totally Team Oriented (RSTO).
• Be knowledgeable of all meat products and offer suggestions to customers.
• Stock and rotate all products in display cases and storage areas, adhering to company policy and product code dates (first in, first out).
• Properly tray, wrap, weigh, and accurately price merchandise.
• Maintain a clean and orderly work area, free from safety hazards; report hazards immediately to management.
• Keep back room, cooler, freezer, fans, drains, and display cases organized and clean; monitor correct temperatures and report refrigeration failures.
• Practice the “Cleaner’s Creed” and proper sanitation procedures.
• Exercise safe food handling practices, lifting, moving, and proper safety practices on all equipment and tools.
• Perform price changes and create and put up signs.
• Notify management of associate theft, customer shoplifting, unauthorized mark-downs, or property defacement.
• Complete onboarding/e-learnings and checklist within 30 days of hire/entering the department.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age to use equipment/tools.
• Demonstrate capability to interact with customers.
• Neat appearance with a pleasant, outgoing, and self-motivated personality.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English, with the ability to follow instructions.
• Ability to work a schedule based on the business needs of the store location.
• Authorized to work within the U.S.

Physical Demands

• Never (0%): Sitting, balancing, fingering, crawling.
• Occasionally (1-33%): Climbing up to 12 feet, stooping, kneeling, crouching, feeling, talking, smelling.
• Frequently (34-66%): Carrying and lifting up to 80 lbs, pushing and pulling up to 400 lbs, handling, bending.
• Continuously (67-100%): Standing and walking on tile or concrete floor, reaching at waist or overhead, seeing, hearing.

Safety Risk Factors

• Never (0%): Hazardous cleaning solutions.
• Occasionally (1-33%): Contact with skin irritants, toxic exposure (see material safety data sheet), nuisance dust, fumes, sprays.
• Frequently (34-66%): Loud noise, twisting of back and neck, slippery and cluttered floor surfaces.
• Continuously (67-100%): Hazardous equipment (mechanical moving parts) and contact with sharp objects.

Machines, Tools, and Equipment Utilized

• Hamburg grinder, automatic wrapping machine, needle machine, cube machine, band saw, slicer, knives, pressure washer, pallet jack, power jack, pricing gun, scale, trash compactor.

Working Conditions

Working environment is primarily inside, possibly outside within cold and potentially wet temperatures. Continuous movement of the entire body is required.

Pay

The hiring range for this position is $15.40 - $20.10 per hour. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to education, experience, qualifications, and internal equity.