Meat Sales Clerk

Job Summary of Meat Sales Clerk:

In your role as a Meat Sales Clerk, your duties involve delivering pleasant and efficient service to customers, assisting with inquiries, handling and preparing meat products, and ensuring a positive shopping experience. Your role also includes maintaining a tidy and organized work environment and providing support to your team members in their daily operations.

Responsibilities of Meat Sales Clerk:

• Ensure compliance with all organizational policies, procedures, and statutory obligations.
• Conform to the Management Planning rules and recommendations.
• Treat all coworkers with equality, respect, and dignity in all workplace interactions.
• Deepen comprehension of meat department offerings and their corresponding cooking instructions.
• Aid in specialized ventures and perform additional functions as assigned by the supervisor.
• Support in the education and training of other team members.
• Adhere to the company's standards for personal appearance to always look neat and tidy.
• Sustain robust communication practices in the department and company-wide.
• Support the company's safety standards by following established protocols. Communicate any required equipment repairs or maintenance tasks promptly. Maintain a safe work environment by removing debris and hazards.
• Comply with and oversee the adherence to the company's sanitation and food safety policies.
• Complete all remaining tasks as designated.
• Exemplify exceptional customer service through effective communication and support in product choice.
• Carry out the necessary steps outlined in standard practice for identifying, packaging, pricing, and weighing merchandise within the meat section.
• Stock the fresh, frozen, and self-serve areas ensuring items are rotated correctly.
• Help meat cutters by scraping and traying products, cubing steaks, and grinding meat to create ground meat products.
• Get meat delivery, designate code, rearrange, and store in the proper storage area.
• Ensure a hygienic environment by washing, rinsing, and sanitizing all cases, wrap stations, scaling tools, cooler, and cutting space, with the added responsibility of disassembling and reassembling equipment in those areas.

Qualifications of Meat Sales Clerk:

• Good interpersonal skills and desire to work in a team environment.
• Must meet minimum age requirements.
• Effective customer service and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn multiple tasks and technical requirements of the job.

Physical Requirements of Meat Sales Clerk:

• Carry meat packages within the weight range of 1 to 40 pounds routinely, and occasionally handle items weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Fulfill the accepted requirements for the quantity of work conducted.
• The position necessitates continuous standing or walking in a setting where the temperature is typically 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Carry out iterative grasping, twisting, extension, and arm gestures while identifying, wrapping, valuating, and weighing the product.
• Able to manage different substances that are associated with cleaning materials, packaging supplies, and meat items.
• Frequent bending.

Hannaford Supermarkets started out as a fresh produce vendor in Portland, Maine way back in 1883, and is still connected to those early roots as a local market. Hannaford actively seeks out farmers and producers to join our Local program which celebrates not only local foods, but the preservation of farmland, local traditions and local jobs. The connection we have to the source of our fresh foods is core to the way we do business, becoming the first major supermarket in the United States to document that all its seafood products were sustainably harvested. Hannaford provides equal opportunity in employment to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), age, veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.