Market Clerk

Brookshire Grocery Company•New Iberia, LA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Market Clerk ensures market and seafood cases are full, rotated, and fresh with prepackaged meats. The role performs basic product preparation—including trimming, weighing, packaging, and labeling as needed—and promotes customer service. Work is generally performed in a retail store, with frequent exposure to extreme cold, wet or slippery conditions, sharp equipment, and cleaning agents. The noise level is moderate to loud. The position typically includes on-the-job training and requires Food Handler certification.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age; must be 18 or older to operate and clean motorized equipment.
Must be at least 21 years old to drive for Company business under the BGC Business Driver Policy.
Food Handler certification is required.
Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and calibrated scales.
Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment and work with sharp objects such as knives, meat grinders, and box cutters.
Ability to use precision and non-precision hand tools.
Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack and safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer.
Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Typically involves on-the-job training.

Responsibilities

Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling products; use precision and non-precision tools or instruments to cut or trim meat products to the desired size, shape, or weight.
Stock and rotate market products, follow quality-control and food-safety standards, organize coolers and freezers according to Company guidelines, and comply with product-origin labeling requirements.
Clean, assemble, and prepare equipment for operation and inspect it to check that it is working properly.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
Stack pallets and sort products into the correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
Greet customers, answer questions, and take orders by phone and in person while maintaining a friendly, customer-service-oriented attitude.
Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by following Company safety procedures.
Watch for potential hazards, remedy them or place appropriate warnings as soon as reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.
Maintain required attendance at work.