Service Deli Clerk

About the Role

Responsible for preparing, packaging, and labeling meals, entrees, salads, party trays, rotisserie chicken, and ribs. Follows Costco standards for food preparation and sanitation. Maintains a clean work area, restocks supplies, and provides a high level of member service.

Responsibilities

• Packages, wraps, seals, weighs, and labels products manually and with a manual wrapping machine.
• Stocks and rotates the display case.
• Restocks and assembles large boxes of ingredients and supplies in the prep area.
• Slices vegetables for salads, entrees, and garnish on prepared foods.
• Assembles party trays, meals, and salads.
• Skewers and cooks chickens, ribs, and all proteins in commercial rotisserie ovens or combi ovens.
• Packages products, weighs ribs, and places them in heated display cases.
• Harvests chicken meat and pieces and carries a tray to the blast chiller for use in deli products.
• Rotates stock in the cooler and uses carts to pull chicken and rib boxes for deli production.
• Follows Costco formulas and diagrams and monitors finished products to ensure department consistency and quality standards are met.
• Complies with health codes regarding sanitation, temperatures, and pull dates.
• Counts on-hand products, figures production needs, and documents production on daily forms.
• Fills out time and temperature record forms.
• Records products to be salvaged, damaged, or destroyed for Manager audit.
• Shops the warehouse and purchases needed supplies and ingredients for the day’s production.
• Cleans and sanitizes deli work areas, including the deli prep room, rotisserie chicken room, and chicken prep area.
• Cleans freezer and cooler areas weekly.
• Sweeps, sprays, mops, washes, wipes, applies cleaning agents, and operates a low-pressure washer.
• Logs sanitation procedures performed on daily reports and complies with health code.
• Performs preventive maintenance for machinery, equipment, and implements.
• Cleans deli display cases weekly or as needed.
• Cleans deli prep room filters weekly.
• Cleans ovens, oven hoods, grease traps, and skewers using proper personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Ensures proper cleanup and disposal of hazardous materials.
• Assists with department duties as necessary.
• Assists in other departments of the warehouse as necessary.

Qualifications

• Ability to operate vehicles, equipment, or machinery.
• Open availability is needed to meet the needs of the business, apart from any religious or disability considerations.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health benefits (medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance)
• Health care reimbursement account
• Dependent care assistance plan
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase plan

Job Description Posting Updated: July 2026 | Job Code: 0556