Meat Clerk Full Time

About the Role

Receives, rotates, wraps, and merchandises fresh and processed meats. Assists in merchandising seafood, rotisserie chickens, prepared foods, and cheeses. Provides assistance to Members by answering questions and recommending products. Maintains all cleaning and safety standards within the meat department.

Responsibilities

• Provides assistance to Members by answering questions regarding meats, poultry, and seafood. Makes recommendations on food products when necessary.
• Weighs, packages, wraps, and labels cuts of meat, poultry, and seafood, including grinds.
• Assists the meat cutter in packaging freshly cut meats and seafood. May grind hamburger meat.
• Inspects and stores meat upon delivery. Ensures that all delivered meat meets or exceeds company quality standards.
• Ensures the meat, seafood, prepared foods, and cheese cases are fully stocked. Rotates meats, poultry, seafood, prepared foods, and cheeses according to expiration dates. Follows established guidelines when disposing of damaged and/or expired products.
• Receives and unpacks meat, poultry, seafood, prepared foods, and cheeses in the meat cooler and freezer.
• Cleans and sanitizes all equipment, display fixtures, and areas in the meat department, including the meat cooler, freezer, and refrigerated display cases.
• Maintains all club policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned, including working in other departments as needed.
• Delivers service excellence through all points of contact. Resolves and deescalates to address every member concern.
• Ensures a safe and positive environment and experience for the members with a daily commitment to GOLD Member Standards: Greet, Anticipate, Appreciate (GAA).
• Works as a team to deliver GOLD club standards daily, including maintaining a grand opening look, stocked items, executed promotional plans, visible accurate signage, and a clean and organized club.
• Understands how to access and read production and/or financial performance reporting for your department and sees the connection between consistent execution and positive business impact.

Requirements

• Previous experience working with fresh and processed meats preferred.
• Knowledge of automatic/hand wrapping machines preferred.
• Prior experience working in a meat and/or deli department preferred.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of this job.

Working Conditions

• Most of the time is spent moving about frequently on hard surfaces. There may be a need to occasionally position oneself to examine or scan merchandise, including bending, handling, pulling, reaching, and/or stooping.
• Frequently requires lifting objects up to 30 pounds. May require lifting and moving heavy and/or awkward objects more than 30 pounds with assistance.
• Located in a comfortable indoor area with infrequent exposure to temperature extremes and loud noises. There may be occasional exposure to cleaning agents.

Benefits

• Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
• Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.

Eligibility requirements vary by position.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $17.25 - $20.70 per hour. At BJ’s Wholesale Club, we carefully consider a wide range of non-discriminatory factors when determining salary, including but not limited to location, education, experience, and qualifications.