Meat Seafood Sales Associate

Yoke's Fresh Market (Yoke's Fresh Markets)•Ponderay, ID

8d•$13 - $23

About The Position

The Meat Seafood Sales Associate provides a pleasant and efficient Meat Department experience by engaging guests and delivering hospitality and professional service. Associates help promote Yoke’s sales and growth, contribute to a welcoming atmosphere, uphold the company’s values, and support the shared success of the team. The role has no formal supervisory responsibilities, though associates may mentor colleagues and are encouraged to demonstrate leadership. The associate serves guests by sharing product information, recommendations, promotions, preparation advice, and department services. The position also involves preparing and handling products, maintaining cases and stock, taking special orders, operating department equipment, and following safety, sanitation, food-handling, and guest-service requirements. Assigned duties may change as business needs require. The role requires a high school diploma or GED, or related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination. Applicants must meet state minimum requirements for using slicers or other meat and seafood equipment and have a valid State Food Handlers Permit and a valid driver’s license or State ID card. Yoke’s provides role-related safety, product, food-handler, and guest-service training. Work involves prolonged standing and varied physical activity, including walking, reaching, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and handling products. Associates continuously lift or move up to 10 pounds, frequently up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds. The workplace includes frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts and occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles, chemicals, and extreme cold or heat; noise is usually moderate. Wage: $13.25 to $22.25, depending on experience. Listed benefits include an employer-paid Employee Assistance Program and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Daily Pay, a company 401(k) match up to 4%, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, an HSA depending on the selected plan, paid holidays, bereavement and jury pay, paid family and medical leave, and paid sick and safe leave.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED; or one to three months of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondence, write simple correspondence, and communicate effectively and pleasantly with guests, vendors, and fellow associates.
Ability to perform mathematical calculations using American money and units of weight and volume.
Ability to use common-sense understanding to follow written or oral instructions and solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Meet the state minimum requirements for working with slicers or other meat and seafood equipment and tools.
Valid State Food Handlers Permit.
Valid driver’s license or State ID card.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including prolonged standing and lifting or moving products as described.
Follow workplace safety practices, use required protective equipment, and report accidents within 24 hours.

Responsibilities

Report for assigned shifts on time and regularly, communicate clearly, and be prepared to provide service while safely performing assigned duties.
Promote sales through guest discussions, product recommendations, current promotions, and information about products, recipes, preparation, and department services.
Greet guests and explain Meat/Seafood Department features, products, and services, including product preparation and custom handling requests.
As assigned, set cases; prepare products; pull dated product; open and close; code-date; operate the sales counter; monitor stock; weigh, price, rotate, label, and order products; and prepare meals in minutes.
Operate department equipment correctly and safely, including the com-line, phone, slicer, knives, scales, box knives, and vacuum pack machine, and wrap products using freezer paper, clear plastic, and other containers.
Communicate guest requests accurately and completely when handling special orders.
Mentor new associates and colleagues new to the department or task, fostering a positive learning environment.
Find ways to make guests happy and uphold guest-service standards.
Follow applicable local, state, federal, and company rules and policies for workplace safety, food handling, sanitation, housekeeping, and guest service.
Participate in the department’s accident-reduction plan, including cleaning and sanitizing and following procedures for equipment safety, emergency response, health codes, HACCP, case temperatures, gloves, ice scoops, sinks, and product storage.
Complete other duties assigned by supervisory staff.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (100% company paid).
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (100% company paid; allocations begin at age 21, with vesting based on credited service).
Daily Pay, allowing employees the option to receive pay for work performed that day.
401(k) with company matching up to 4%, if elected.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; employer pays the majority of the premium, and a no-deductible medical option is available.
Health Savings Account, depending on the plan selected.
Paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day; worked holidays are paid at time and a half.
Three days of bereavement pay.
Three days of jury pay.
Paid Family & Medical Leave with company-paid premium.
Paid Sick & Safe Leave, earned at one hour for every 40 hours worked.
Optional Hepatitis A vaccination provided by Yoke’s Pharmacy.