Market Clerk

Brookshire's•Columbia, LA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Market Clerk ensures market and seafood cases are kept 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, and a moderate to loud noise level.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age; partners 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.
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, verbally and in writing, with customers and partners.
Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Typically involves on-the-job training.
Partners must be at least 21 years of age to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
Continuously use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus; stand or walk; and use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
Frequently bend, kneel, squat, or stoop; push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.; and talk and hear.
Occasionally push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.

Responsibilities

Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling products.
Use non-precision and precision tools or instruments to cut or trim unfinished meat products into desired sizes, shapes, or weights.
Stock and rotate market products while following quality control and food safety standards.
Keep coolers and freezers organized according to Company guidelines.
Follow governmental product-origin labeling requirements.
Clean, assemble, and prepare equipment for operation and check that it is in working order.
Promote product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
Stack pallets and sort product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
Greet customers, answer questions, and take orders by phone and in person with 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 warning signs or devices as soon as reasonably possible, and report hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.
Attend work as required.