Meat Clerk Part Time

• Location 1701 Paragould Plaza,Paragould, AR, 72450,United States
• Employee Type Part Time

The Meat Clerk is responsible for serving customers in an attentive, friendly, and efficient manner. The team member contributes to the overall success of the department by responding to customer requests, supporting departmental team member roles, and assisting as needed throughout the department. The associate will also be required to perform maintenance and cleanup duties in the meat department and associated areas as prescribed by the meat department manager.

• Provides premier customer service, including greeting customers and answering their questions.
• Sells products by providing customers with information needed to make product‑related decisions, taking orders, selecting, weighing, pricing, and wrapping product.
• Verifies ad prices, hangs current sale signs or price change tags, and removes out‑of‑date sale signs or price change tags.
• Loads stocking carts/pallets, transports cases/product to sales floor/cooler/freezer/product preparation area either on stocking carts or pallets, matches the product UPC to the shelf/case tag, opens cases, places merchandise in the designated cooler/freezer/case/shelf/display position/area, checks the product code/freshness date and “face/front”/rotates each product on display.
• Perform raw meat preparation, packing, storage, and inventory replenishment.
• Orders the proper amount of product for the lunch meat and cheese cases if instructed by meat manager.
• Prepares/organises the cooler/freezer/backroom/preparation area for receipt of merchandise, unloads trucks, verifies the merchandise against the invoice, inspects the delivery for quality/shortages/damage, sorts cases for stocking or product preparation and codes date the product.
• Cleans and sanitises department floors, mirror, case, racks, tables, cooler, freezer, department equipment, product preparation area, and shelves. Safely uses cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• Always operates equipment with all safeguards in place and in good operating condition; observes the safe method of performing all duties; uses and maintains all equipment in good condition. Assures the safety of self, customers, and co‑workers by understanding and practising store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately. Picks up/removes all trash/boxes/packing materials from the sales floor or product preparation area immediately.
• Understands the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack, pricing gun, grinder, tenderiser, saw, knife, slicer, scales, wrapper, smoker.
  
  NOTE:
  
  must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, forklift, baler, grinder, smoker, tenderiser, saw and slicer.
• Evaluates product quality and moves damaged/unsaleable and “returnable” products from the shelf/case to the backroom for re‑processing into a saleable form or marks the product down in price.
• Uses the proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to product.
• Removes trash from the aisle or product preparation area and operates the baler.
• Changes signs, light bulbs, and tags on the case/shelf display.
• Communicates with the department manager on problems, recommendations for change and merchandising ideas.
• Checks case and cooler/freezer temperatures 3 times daily.
• Monitors inventory of cleaning supplies and sanitising chemicals; informs manager when supplies levels are low in accordance with established guidelines.
• Empties all rubbish containers. Sweeps and cleans applicable floor areas as prescribed by management.
• Adheres to local, state, and federal health and civil code regulations.
• Complies with all safety policies, procedures, and reads all Safety bulletins.
• Maintains regular and punctual attendance. Works overtime (including more than 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, or multiple days in a row).
• Performs other duties and assignments as directed.

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