The Meat Clerk is responsible for providing a high level of customer service and practicing safe food handling procedures. This position receives, stores, and grinds meats; unloads and transports fresh, cured and boxed meats and poultry from delivery truck; counts and weighs incoming articles and compares results against invoice; and examines meats in storage and rotates meats to avoid aging.
Essential Functions
- Provides a high level of prompt and friendly customer service; assists customers with questions, and special orders and needs
- Maintains a positive work environment
- Properly wraps, scales and labels product
- Maintains strict adherence to Company recipes
- Assists in unloading and stocking merchandise; displays and maintains in-stock conditions
- Has knowledge of weekly ad items; gives customers direction of product location throughout the store
- Cleans and sanitizes work area (including tables, floor, walls, cases, cooler, freezer, etc.); assists in maintaining all equipment in safe working condition
- Follows all safety, health and Weights and Measures regulations; monitors temperatures within cooler, freezer and cases on a regular basis
- Rotates product and pays particular attention to code dates; maintains fresh and appealing appearance throughout the department
- Follows “Clean as You Go” and “Fresh at 4” Programs
- Maintains excellent communication with store management team and front end at all times; assists Meat Manager as needed
- General housekeeping in the department
- Assists with shelf stocking, facing and dusting as needed
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Reliable and dependable; ability to follow direction
- Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback
- Strong communication skills; outgoing and friendly demeanor
- Ability to perform repetitious activities
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and stay organized
- Excellent customer service skills and a positive attitude are essential to interact with customers and employees.
- Ability to work varied hours/days as business dictates
Physical Requirements
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position or that a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Weekend, evening and holiday work required
- Minimum age for employment is 18
- Must be able to lift/carry products horizontally/vertically between 25 to 90 lbs., from 4” to 60”, a distance up to 10 feet for 20 hours
- Must be able to use a pallet jack to move pallets horizontally up to 500 lbs., requiring a force of up to 85 lbs., a distance up to 100 feet for up to 5 hours
- Will need to horizontally move racks of products weighing up to 70 lbs., requiring a force up to 25 lbs., for a distance up to 50 feet for up to 10 hours
- Must move tables weighing up to 70 lbs., requiring a force greater than 35 lbs., a distance up to 2 feet for up to 1 hour
- Must vertically pull down gate requiring a force up to 10 lbs., for a distance up to 3 feet for up to 1 hour
- A bilateral coupling force up to 30 lbs. for up to 100 hours is required
- Will need to use a 2 step stool for up to 10 steps per hour per shift
- Capable of standing for up to 4 hour continuously, and a total of 8 hours per shift is a must
- Will be working inside a temperature controlled area
- Good vision is required for using sharp knives, band saw, grinder, sausage maker, box cutter, wrapping machine and tenderizer
- Will walk up to 2 miles per 8 hours
This job may have specific physical demands including, but not limited to, the following: ability to lift up to 75 lbs.; ability to operate machinery with moving mechanical parts; and ability to bend, reach, kneel, squat, stand for a long period of time and push/pull heavy loads. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
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