Deli Food Specialist

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Deli Clerk to join our team at Brookshire Grocery Company. As a Deli Clerk, you will be responsible for preparing and serving a variety of hot and cold deli foods to our customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist deli personnel with slicing, weighing, packaging, labeling, and preparing hot and cold deli food under supervision.
• Adhere to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating deli products.
• 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.
• Promote product sales through the use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.
• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment, such as a slicer, under supervision.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment under supervision.
• Ability to safely work with objects with sharp edges, such as a meat slicer, knives, box cutters, etc., under supervision.
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools under supervision.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with customers and partners in written and verbal form.
• 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.
• Continuously required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to use fine finger movements (e.g., sorting and typing) or strenuous finger or hand movements.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel, squat, or stoop.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• 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 extreme heat 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.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Brookshire Grocery 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.