Meat Clerk/Meat Cutter

2 weeks ago

Staunton, United States Kroger Full time $14 - $16
Position: Meat Clerk/Meat Cutter - Full Time/Part Time

Position Summary:
  • Create an outstanding customer service experience through exceptional service.
  • Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return.
  • Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor all established quality assurance standards.
  • Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service.
  • Role model and demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.
Essential Job Functions:
  • Promote trust and respect among associates, with a positive attitude. 
  • Understand and adhere to policies and procedures pertaining to safety, shrink, product dating and rotation, sanitation, temperature logs, grinding logs, and other state and federal food safety regulations.
  • Unload meat from the delivery truck onto a cart and moving it to the freezer and display area. 
  • Stock the freezer with boxes of various meats and display cases with lunch meat, chicken, beef, and pork.
  • Set meat counter with the various cut meats and other products. 
  • Maintain department stock levels. 
  • Prepare customer orders. 
  • Understand the proper ways to weigh and wrap the product and attach the proper label. 
  • Maintain clean and safe department. 
  • Break down and clean equipment, clean out the display cases, and dispose of product that is no longer suitable for sale (this involves contact with water and various cleaning products). 
  • Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Behaviors/Skills: Some of the Behaviors needed to successfully perform this position are:
Leadership Behaviors:
  • Puts the Customer First - Anticipates customer needs, champions for the customer, acts with customers in mind, exceeds customers’ expectations, gains customers’ trust and respect. 
  • Communicates effectively and candidly - Communicates clearly and directly, approachable, relates well to others, engages people and helps them understand change, provides and seeks feedback, articulates clearly, actively listens.
  • Achieves results through teamwork - Is open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable, involves others to accomplish individual and team goals.
  • Leads through positive influence - Demonstrates strong character; builds partnerships; models a conscious balance between work and personal life; takes personal responsibility for own development; role models leadership qualities such as motivation, inspiration, passion and trust.
  • Coaches and develops others - Develops and cares about associates, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback.
  • Leads change and innovation - Challenges the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about which ideas will work.
  • Executes with excellence - Is action oriented, drives for results, sets clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, can be counted on to consistently meet or exceed goals.
  • Provides clear and strategic direction - Plans and organizes well, sets a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities, has the ability to visualize and plan for the future, understands the industry and marketplace. 
  • Safety Awareness -Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employee safety; upholding safety standards.
Minimum Position Qualifications:
  • Must be of legal age or older.
  • Ability to handle stressful situations.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, subtraction).
Desired Previous Job Experience
  • Retail/Meat experience.
  • Second language (speaking, reading, and/or writing).
Potential Career Path from this position:  
  • Department Manager.
  • Other clerk positions.

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