Meat Clerk

Meat Clerk

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service while wrapping, trimming, stocking, and receiving merchandise in the Meat and/or Seafood Department.

Accountable to District Store Director;
Store Manager;
Assistant Managers of Operations, Perishables, Health Wellness Home;
Meat Department Manager;
Assistant Meat Department Manager;
Seafood Department Manager;
Assistant Seafood Department Manager;
Service Managers.

Positions that report to the Meat Clerk:
Under certain circumstances, part‑time stockers may receive direction from the Meat Clerk.

• Provide 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.
• Smile and greet customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Make an effort to learn customers’ names and address them by name whenever possible.
• Assist customers by escorting them to desired products, securing out‑of‑reach items, loading or unloading heavy items, and passing along suggestions or requests to staff.
• Answer the telephone promptly when called upon and provide friendly, helpful service to callers, including taking customer orders.
• Work with co‑workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Wrap, weigh, and label product.
• Review the status and appearance of food for freshness, then stock or rotate product in cases.
• Finish trims on steaks, roasts, and chops, and prepare restaurant‑retail cuts, including traying seafood.
• Prepare and organize seafood items for display.
• Understand and practice proper sanitation procedures; keep the work area clean and neat.
• Replenish and organize coolers.
• Report out‑of‑stock products to appropriate personnel.
• Tray, slice, tenderize, and grind product.
• Remove trash in a timely manner.
• Maintain strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adhere to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Report to work on time when scheduled.
• Deal with customers daily and vendors/suppliers on an as‑needed basis.

• Prepare some signs for the department.
• Order replenishment merchandise as directed by management.
• Assist in other areas of the store as needed.
• Perform other job‑related duties and special projects as required.

• High School or equivalent experience with food safety training.
• Six months or less of similar or related work experience.
• Ability to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or verbal instructions and handle concrete variables.
• Proficiency in simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

• Exert up to 85 pounds of force occasionally; up to 40 pounds of force frequently; and up to 10 pounds of force constantly.
• Visual requirements: vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
• Perform climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

• Continuously exposed to a cool environment and dampness.
• Frequent noise from saws, exposure to cleaning solvents, and potential electrical shock.
• Fast‑paced work environment.

• Knives, grinders, patty maker, tenderizer, slicer, pallet jack, tumbler, wrapping system, and rotisserie.