Meat & Seafood Clerk

Meat & Seafood ClerkIf you enjoy working with fresh food, helping customers, and being part of a hands-on team, our Meat & Seafood Clerk position could be a great opportunity for you! You'll assist customers with their selections, help maintain fresh and attractive meat and seafood displays, support product preparation and stocking, and ensure our department provides the quality and service our customers expect. This role is perfect for someone who takes pride in quality, enjoys staying active, and wants to be part of a team dedicated to providing an exceptional shopping experience.At Sendik's Fine Foods, we're more than just a grocery store—we're a family-owned company that values our employees and promotes a positive, supportive work environment. We offer flexible scheduling, opportunities to learn and grow within the company, and a comprehensive benefits package for all team members that includes a 401(k) with company contribution and employee discounts. Full-time team members also enjoy health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and more. If you're looking for a workplace where your contributions are appreciated and you can build a long-term career, we'd love to have you on our team!Meat & Seafood Clerk Job Description:Primary Objective: To provide customer service and department cleaning duties. To perform meat cutting, food preparation, stocking and product rotation. To contribute toward ensuring a positive shopping environment for customers and a positive working environment for employees.Nature And Scope: Emphasis in this position is to meet daily customer service needs. Primary learning challenge is learning and retail cutting techniques for all meat and seafood cuts, proficiency with the saw and merchandising techniques. This position requires ongoing heavy lifting, standing, operation of meat equipment, exposure to cold temperatures and wet surfaces, judgment/decision making, social skills/verbal interaction, listening skills and reading. Position functions and work hours may vary according to business needs. The Meat and Seafood Manager or person in charge provides assignments and work directions.Essential Position Functions:Assist customers with requests and information Ensure customer satisfactionAssist with special orders, product information and location and service counterMaintain Meat and Seafood cases Pull outdated product and properly rotateRestock as needed to maintain maximum selectionFollow merchandising planAssist with Food Preparation Ensure proper handling, sanitation, freshness and quality of all productsEnsure proper assembly and recipes are followed for all production itemsFollow tare weight proceduresClean and sanitize equipment, cases, work area and sales floor Break down equipment according to proceduresContinuously monitor area and sales floor for cleanlinessUtilize personal protective devices (rain suit, over boots, chemical splash goggles, metal mesh gloves, chemical resistant gloves) as instructedReceive and process meat and seafood shipments correctly Verify product with invoice and logEnsure product meets quality standardsFollow proper security measuresKeep cooler properly rotated and organizedAssist in placing ordersPerform meat and seafood cutting and preparation while in trainingFollow daily cutting lists and complete work in allotted timeDemonstrate proficiency in sawing, boning, cutting, trimming, grinding, weighing, traying and wrapping techniquesMaintain Sendik's Fine Foods quality and trim standardsAssist in training employeesFollow all store and department policies and proceduresFunctional Requirements:Physical Lifting/carrying up to 100 lbs.Pushing/pulling up to 2000 lbs.Equipment operation (telephone, meat slicer, wrapping machine, flatbed, pallet jack, racks, meat saw, bone scraper, knives, meat grinder, cuber, patty machine, tenderizer, bulker, meat mixer)Reaching squatting, kneeling, walking, standing, stooping, bending, turningMental Social skills/verbal interactionListening skillsJudgment/decision makingReading, writing, mathMemorizationEnvironmental Working in cold conditionsWorking with hot equipmentImportant Disclosure NoticeThe job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations or the work environment change.An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.