Market Clerk

Brookshire's•New Iberia, LA

3d•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, while promoting customer service and product sales. Work is generally performed in a retail store, with frequent exposure to extreme cold, wet or slippery conditions, sharp-edged equipment, and cleaning agents. Noise levels are moderate to loud. Typically, the position involves on-the-job training. A Food Handler certification is required.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age; partners must be 18 or older to operate and clean motorized equipment.
Must be at least 21 years of age 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.
Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, meat grinders, and box cutters.
Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack.
Ability to 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 in written and verbal form with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Physical ability to continuously stand or walk and use close and distance vision, depth perception, or focusing ability; continuously use hands for reaching, touching, or handling; frequently bend, kneel, squat, or stoop; frequently push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 pounds; and occasionally push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 pounds.
Attendance at work is required.

Responsibilities

Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling products.
Use non-precision and precision tools or instruments to cut or trim unfinished meat products to desired sizes, shapes, or weights.
Maintain quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating market products.
Organize coolers and freezers according to Company guidelines.
Follow governmental product-origin labeling requirements.
Clean, assemble, and prepare equipment for operation, and examine it to confirm it is in working order.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
Stack pallets and sort products into 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 and remedy them or place appropriate warnings as soon as reasonably possible; report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.