Meat Clerk

Meat Clerk Position

Help guests bring home high-quality cuts they'll feel proud to serve. Whether it's a weekend grill-out or a weeknight dinner, guests count on us to help them make mealtime something special. As a Meat Clerk, you'll be at the center of it all—answering questions, recommending cuts, and ensuring our meat cases are full, fresh, and ready for the next guest. If you're friendly, attentive, and love working in a fast-paced, retail food service environment, this is a great place to grow your skills and your career.

In this role, you'll provide top-notch service at the meat and seafood counter, restock and rotate product on the sales floor, and help keep our department running smoothly. We're proud to offer the freshest, most sustainable seafood selection in the state and serve the Certified Angus Beef® brand—so guests know they're bringing home quality they can feel good about. From special orders to food safety standards, you'll play a key role in creating a department guests trust and return to again and again.

As a Meat Clerk at Festival Foods, your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver Helpful Service: Provide exceptional guest service at the meat counter and on the sales floor, including fulfilling special orders and answering product questions.
• Maintain fresh, well-stocked displays by inspecting, rotating, and replenishing meat products and supplies.
• Regular, timely attendance in compliance with the work schedule, and adequate notice to find a replacement for occasional absences.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

To succeed as a Festival Foods Meat Clerk, you should have:

• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to effectively engage with guests, leaders, and retail sales associates. Utilize strong written and verbal skills to work with a crew in a fast-paced environment.
• Food Safety: A willingness to learn food safety standards, proper equipment usage (like slicers), and inventory practices.
• Ability to Multitask and stay customer service focused in a busy retail grocery environment.
• Safety Mindset: An understanding of safety and food safety practices and a commitment to following them. This role requires proper training and knowledge of equipment and procedures, including: slicers, proper lifting techniques, trash compactor, baler, etc.

The physical demands and work environment described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Stand in one place for a long period of time, bend, stoop, and kneel regularly
• Full range of upper body motion
• Lifting up to 80 pounds on an occasional basis
• Occasional exposure to extreme temperatures such as freezers, coolers, kitchens, and sales floor
• Repetitive motion of hands and wrists
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

This is a part-time or full-time position with varying shifts, including weekdays, weekends, and holidays.

Festival Foods offers a range of benefits including an associate discount, weekly pay & premium pay, two-week advanced scheduling, vision & dental insurance, support for total well-being, and a 401(k) plan with an annual discretionary match.