MEAT CLERK
Houchens Food GroupAbout the role
Description
Meat Clerk
Department: Meat
Job Status: Part Time
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports To: Meat Manager
Grade/Level:
Amount of Travel Required: No travel required
Work Schedule: Flexible
Positions Supervised: None
POSITION SUMMARY
Responsible for meat operation including but not limited to preparing, storing, cutting, cleaning and serving meat.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Monitor food distribution and ensure that guidelines are followed.
- Clean and sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment and facilities.
- Maintain coolers, cases, and displays by keeping them stocked.
- Observe scheduled shift hours as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
- Give all customers friendly, courteous and prompt service.
- Perform specific task as assigned by meat and/or store manager.
- Maintain good communication with the meat manager.
- Share responsibility for controlling shrink.
- Properly record all hours worked. Verify and sign the time ticket report.
- Monitor food preparation and serving techniques to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
- Responsible for assisting in recording and maintaining accurate bookkeeping systems as far as weekly meat purchases and monthly meat purchases.
- Assist in maintaining proper record to control shrink through inventory and ordering.
- Responsible for assisting in inventorying all products on hand before preparing a meat order.
- Assist meat manager in taking a four week period meat inventory.
- Ensure that product is being rotated when received and stocked.
- Ensure that all meat coolers and meat cases are running at the proper temperature.
- Ensure that proper safety procedures are being used.
- Properly clean and maintain meat department, coolers, cases and equipment.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competency Statement(s)
- Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Accurate - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
- Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
- Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
- Friendly - Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
- Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
- Interpersonal - Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
- Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
Patience - Ability to act calmly under stress and strain, and of not being hasty or impetuous.
Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers.
Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
Team Building - Ability to convince a group of people to work toward a goal.
Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
Education
Less than high school education
Experience
No prior experience necessary
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Computer Skills
General
Other Requirements
Required to have acess to a phone at all times and basic math skills.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Physical Abilities Lift /Carry
Stand C (Constantly) 10 lbs or less C (Constantly)
Walk F (Frequently) 11-20 lbs C (Constantly)
Sit O (Occasionally) 21-50 lbs C (Constantly)
Handling / Fingering C (Constantly) 51-100 lbs F (Frequently)
Reach Outward F (Frequently) Over 100 lbs O (Occasionally)
Reach Above Shoulder F (Frequently)
Climb O (Occasionally)
Crawl O (Occasionally)
Squat or Kneel F (Frequently)
Bend F (Frequently)
Push / Pull
12 lbs or less F (Frequently)
13-25 lbs F (Frequently)
26-40 lbs F (Frequently)
41-100 lbs F (Frequently)
N (Not Applicable) Activity is not applicable to this occupation.
O (Occasionally) Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5+ hrs/day)
F (Frequently) Occu
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