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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Additional Information
Company Name: Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp
Schedule: Full-time
Work Indicator: Onsite
Additional Information
Company Name: Shoppers Food Warehouse Corp
Schedule: Full-time
Work Indicator: Onsite