Market Clerk

Brookshire Grocery Company•Columbia, LA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age; employees must be 18 or older to operate and clean motorized equipment.
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 to work safely with sharp objects, including 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 equipment such as a bailer.
Ability to work well with colleagues and promote a team environment.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with customers and colleagues.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Attendance at work is required.
Partners must be at least 21 years old to drive for Company business under the BGC Business Driver Policy.
Physical requirements include continuously standing or walking, using hands for reaching, touching, or handling, and using close and distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus; frequently bending, kneeling, squatting, or stooping and lifting, pushing, pulling, or maneuvering up to 40 pounds; and occasionally lifting, pushing, pulling, or maneuvering up to 75 pounds.
Frequently works in extreme cold, wet, slippery, or damp conditions and around sharp blades or edges and cleaning agents; the work environment has moderate to loud noise.

Responsibilities

Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling products; use precision and non-precision tools 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, prepare, and inspect equipment to ensure it is in working order.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling.
Stack pallets and sort products into the correct locations according to Company efficiency standards.
Greet customers, answer questions, and take orders by phone and in person while providing friendly, customer-oriented service.
Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary work and shopping environment by following Company safety procedures.
Watch for potential hazards, remedy them or place appropriate warning signs or devices as soon as reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.