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Location: Mead, WA

Compensation: $16.30 to $ depending on experience with verifiable work history or samples.

Benefits:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - Fully funded by the company
• DailyPay - Option for employees to receive payment on the same day they work
• 401K - Company matching available up to 4% (if selected)
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance (including no deductible medical options)
• Company-funded Life Insurance for full-time employees (30 hours)
• Optional Insurance Products
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Paid Holidays
• Vacation Leave
• Bereavement and Jury Duty Pay
• Paid Sick and Safe Leave - Earn 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked
• Paid Family and Medical Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Position Overview

The primary objective of this role is to deliver an exceptional experience in the Meat Department by actively engaging customers and ensuring they receive outstanding service and hospitality.

Core Expectations for all positions within our organization include, but are not limited to:

• Fostering a welcoming environment for all.
• Upholding Yoke's Core Values and Mission Statement as a vital part of your contribution to our team.
• Supporting Yoke's sales and growth by promoting our stores and representing our brand positively in the community.
• Participating with genuine enthusiasm and care for our collective success, always remembering that we are the owners of Yoke's.

Key Responsibilities

The following are essential duties associated with this position. Associates are expected to complete all assigned tasks necessary for the successful operation of our business. All associates must perform their duties in a manner that maintains the integrity and honesty of our company.

• Arriving for scheduled shifts punctually and consistently, capable of clear communication and demonstrating the physical ability to safely perform assigned tasks while providing excellent service.
• Enhancing sales through proactive engagement with customers, offering product suggestions, and discussing current promotions and services. (Examples may include: inquiring if customers need additional products, sharing insights about Yoke's signature items, or providing recipe and preparation advice).
• Delivering customer service by greeting guests and informing them about special features, product details, and services available in the Meat/Seafood Department. Services include, but are not limited to: breaking down package sizes, sharing cooking techniques, slicing various meats, cleaning seafood, and fulfilling special requests.
• Understanding and performing the following tasks as assigned: setting up displays, preparing products, managing inventory, operating sales counters, and maintaining stock levels.
• Safely operating essential equipment including slicers, scales, and vacuum pack machines.
• Completing tasks as directed by supervisory staff.
• Communicating customer requests accurately for special orders.
• Mentoring new associates or those unfamiliar with specific tasks, ensuring a positive learning environment.
• Striving to exceed customer expectations.
• Ensuring compliance with all local, state, federal, and company regulations regarding workplace safety, food handling, sanitation, and customer service.
• Actively participating in the Meat/Seafood Department's safety initiatives, including maintaining cleanliness and recognizing safety protocols.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position does not have formal supervisory duties; however, every associate at Yoke's has the opportunity to demonstrate leadership. The following quote reflects our belief in shared leadership:

"Whether you are the president of a company or the janitor, the moment you step from independence into interdependence in any capacity, you step into a leadership role. You are in a position of influencing other people." - Stephen Covey

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The qualifications listed below represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Education and Experience

High school diploma or GED; or one to three months of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Capable of writing simple correspondence and communicating effectively with customers, vendors, and fellow associates.

• Mathematical Skills

Ability to perform mathematical calculations using units of American currency and weight measurements.

• Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form and manage problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Other Qualifications

Must meet state minimum requirements to operate slicers or other meat/seafood equipment.

• Certificates & Licenses

Valid State Food Handlers Permit

Valid Driver's License or State I.D. Card

• Training Provided by Yoke's

Active Shooter Training

Meat/Seafood Skills Training Levels One, Two, and Three

Food Handler's Safety Training

HIPAA Training

Late Night Retail Safety Training

Yoke's Safety Orientation Training / Active Shooter

Yoke's Guest Service Training & Commitment

(Optional: Hepatitis A vaccination provided by Yoke's Pharmacy)

Physical Demands & Safety Expectations

Most positions at Yoke's require varying degrees of physical effort. Associates are expected to adhere to Yoke's safety standards consistently. This includes using personal protective equipment when necessary, understanding ergonomic safety, chemical hazards, safe lifting techniques, and emergency protocols. All associates must report accidents within 24 hours.

No associate may pose a direct threat to the health and safety of themselves or others by engaging in unsafe behaviors.

The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, associates are regularly required to stand for extended periods, walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste, smell, talk, and hear.

Associates must continuously lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, associates are frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.

The job duties, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and requirements 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.