Meat Clerk

About the Role

This position involves wrapping and pricing products, servicing customers, and maintaining meat display cases. You will 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 collaborate 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/signage as needed.
• Notify management of associate theft, customer shoplifting, unauthorized markdowns, or property defacement.
• Complete onboarding/e-learnings and checklist within 30 days of hire/entering the department.
• Perform 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.
• Ability 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, with possible exposure to cold and wet conditions.

Pay

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