Meat Clerk

Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service. Has ability to recognize and cut all varieties of beef, pork, chicken, veal and lamb.  Handles food in a safe manner and ensures neatness of department. Grinds, slices, and tenderizes meat, rotates stock, stocks cases, and places product in the coolers and freezers.

Primary Responsibilities

·        Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.

·        Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store. 

·        Answers the department telephone promptly when called upon, and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call.

·        Conveys customer special orders to appropriate personnel.

·        Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.

·        Reviews the status and appearance of department merchandise for freshness.

·        Ensures appropriate stocking of fresh and smoked meat/pork/poultry cases, coolers and freezers by rotating and replenishing product.  Checks invoices against delivered product.

·        Weighs, dates, labels and wraps fresh meat.

·        Responsible for proper inventory control (pricing, ordering, stocking).

·        Produces fresh ground beef and pork as service levels designate.

·        Slices hams and other approved boneless, smoked items.

·        Tenderizes meat or pork using cuber machine.

·        Cleans all equipment in the meat department area on a daily basis.

·        Checks signage to ensure it is with the appropriate product and at the correct price.

·        Reports out-of-stock products to appropriate personnel.

·        Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.

·        Removes trash in a timely manner.

·        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.

·        Protects associates and customers by removing hazards from the sales floor in a timely manner.

·        Insures that all food is handled in accordance with local health department regulations.

Skills and Abilities

·        The ability to work for prolonged periods of time in refrigerated and frozen levels of temperatures.

·        The ability to work in an environment with continuous high noise levels.

·        Must be able to safely operate a box cutter, meat cutting knife, cuber, slicer, wrapper, and all cleaning equipment found in the meat department.

·        Must have the ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions.

·        Ability to do simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting and recording.

·        Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

·        Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color), and field of vision.

·        Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends and holidays.

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