Meat Clerk (Evenings & Weekends)

Hy-Vee, Inc.•Brooklyn Park, MN

4d•$14 - $17

About The Position

The Meat Clerk provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service and wraps, trims, stocks, and receives merchandise in the Meat and/or Seafood Department. The role supports a pleasant shopping experience by helping customers, maintaining product freshness and presentation, and working collaboratively with store colleagues. This position performs meat and seafood preparation and stocking tasks, including wrapping, weighing, labeling, trimming, slicing, tenderizing, and grinding products. It also maintains clean and sanitary work areas, replenishes coolers, organizes seafood displays, and follows department and company guidelines. The position is continually exposed to a cool and damp environment, with frequent noise from saws and exposure to cleaning solvents. The work environment is fast-paced.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years old.
High school education or equivalent experience.
Food safety training.
Six months or less of similar or related work experience.
Ability to follow detailed but uncomplicated written or verbal instructions and deal with a few concrete variables.
Ability to perform simple addition and subtraction, copy figures, and count and record information.
Ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions, write identifying information, and request supplies orally or in writing.
Ability to exert up to 85 pounds of force occasionally, 40 pounds frequently, and 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Visual ability to see at distances from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet, with or without correction, including depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
Ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, feel, talk, hear, and perform repetitive motions.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.

Responsibilities

Provide prompt, efficient, friendly, and helpful customer service, treating customers with care and patience.
Greet customers, learn and use their names when possible, and assist them with finding or reaching products, handling heavy items, and sharing suggestions or requests.
Answer customer calls promptly, provide helpful service, and take customer orders.
Work with co-workers to support customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
Wrap, weigh, and label products.
Check food freshness and appearance, stock cases, and rotate products.
Trim steaks, roasts, and chops for retail cuts, and prepare seafood for traying.
Prepare and organize seafood items for display.
Follow sanitation procedures and keep the work area clean and neat.
Replenish and organize coolers.
Report out-of-stock products to appropriate personnel.
Tray, slice, tenderize, and grind products.
Remove trash promptly.
Follow department and company guidelines for personal hygiene and dress, as well as company policies and store guidelines.
Report to work as scheduled and on time.
Prepare some department signs.
Order replenishment merchandise as directed by management.
Assist in other store areas and perform other job-related duties and special projects as required.