Market Clerk

Job Summary

As a Market Clerk at Brookshire Grocery Company, you will play a vital role in ensuring the freshness and quality of our market and seafood cases. Your responsibilities will include trimming, weighing, packaging, and labeling products, as well as promoting customer service and sales.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling product, using non-precision and precision tools and/or instruments.
• Adhere to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating market products, ensuring 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 use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• 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 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.

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug-free, and alcohol-free environment for its partners and guests. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, or military status and any other trait protected by law.