Grocery Store Clerk

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Market Sales Associate to join our team at Brookshire Grocery Company. As a Market Sales Associate, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our market and seafood cases are always full, rotated, and fresh with prepackaged meats.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling product to ensure accurate and efficient service to our customers.
• Adhere to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating market products, ensuring that coolers and freezers are organized according to Company guidelines.
• Clean, assemble, and prepare equipment for operation, and examine to check working order under supervision.
• Promote product sales through the use of suggestive selling initiatives to drive sales and increase customer satisfaction.
• Stack pallets and sort product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations under supervision.
• Provide friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and taking orders by phone and in person.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment under supervision.
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, meat grinder, box cutters, etc. after completing proper training.
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools under supervision.
• Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack under supervision.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer, etc. under supervision.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate (in written and verbal form) with customers and partners.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Minimum of 16 years of age required.
• Must be 18 years of age to operate motorized equipment.
• Typically involves on-the-job training.
• Food Handler certification required.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel, squat, or stoop.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Frequently exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Frequently exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges under supervision.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Moderate to loud noise level.