Meat Clerk

Job Overview

The meat clerk is an important position within the meat department and the store. Many customers make their decisions to shop at our store because of the quality of the perishable departments. One of the areas that influence customers’ perceptions of the entire store is the look and smell of the meat department. Even if the customer is not purchasing meat today, they want to look at meat that is appealing, bright in color, well merchandised, and without discoloration.

• Create an appealing presentation of the selection of steaks, chops, roasts, chicken, and other products ensuring each product is fresh, smells odorless, and is packaged with proper firmness.
• Reach out to customers and encourage additional sales.
• Respond to requests, learn to use a slice machine for lunch meat and a small grinder for grinding meats.
• Handle meat correctly due to its extreme perishability, ensuring negative consequences are avoided and the results positively affect the store.
• Treat each customer like a guest with courtesy, friendliness, and respect.

• Able to read, write and speak English with reasonable proficiency.
• Possesses basic math skills.
• Communicate effectively with customers, associates, and others.
• Friendly and pleasant.
• Flexible scheduling; on time; reliable; good work ethic; high integrity; drug free.
• Clean, presentable appearance.
• Good customer service skills; outgoing and helpful.
• Ability to lift boxes at a minimum weight of 30 pounds.
• Ability to stand for four consecutive hours without restrictions.
• Ability to use a knife effectively and efficiently.
• Knows basic cuts of meat.
• Regularly stand, use hands, walk, reach with hands and arms, occasionally crouch and kneel.
• Be able to climb a ladder to retrieve items from overhead racks.
• Be able to work in refrigerated coolers and cutting rooms, and endure temperatures up to 10 minutes in frozen food storage coolers.
• Comply with all safety policies and procedures.
• Have sufficient physical mobility or agility to disassemble and clean meat department equipment.

Full-Time and/or Part-Time.

The job duties, responsibilities and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not limited to the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Jons reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of business or work environment change.

The employer will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.