Meat Clerk

Job Title: Meat Clerk

Company: Hy-Vee, Inc.

About the Role

Hy-Vee values its people as its strength, promising "a helpful smile in every aisle." This role contributes to that promise through exceptional customer service and efficient department operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service, exhibiting caring, concern, and patience.
• Greets customers with a smile and makes an effort to learn and use their names.
• Assists customers by escorting them to products, securing hard-to-reach items, loading/unloading heavy items, and relaying customer suggestions.
• Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service, including taking customer orders.
• Works collaboratively with co-workers to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Wraps, weighs, and labels product.
• Reviews food for freshness and stocks cases or rotates product.
• Trims steaks, roasts, and chops, and prepares seafood for display.
• Organizes seafood items for display.
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures, ensuring a clean and neat work area.
• Replenishes and organizes coolers.
• Reports out-of-stock products to appropriate personnel.
• Trays, slices, tenderizes, and grinds product.
• Removes trash in a timely manner.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines for personal hygiene and dress.
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Prepares some signs for the department.
• Orders replenishment merchandise as directed by management.
• Assists in other areas of the store as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties and special projects as required.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Must be 18+ years of age.

• Ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or verbal instructions and deal with a few concrete variables.
• Ability to perform simple addition and subtraction; copy figures, count, and record.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.
• Proficiency with knives, grinders, patty maker, tenderizer, slicer, pallet jack, tumbler, wrapping system, and rotisserie.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent experience.
• Food safety training.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to exert up to 85 pounds of force occasionally; up to 40 pounds of force frequently; and up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
• Ability to perform climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions

• Continual exposure to a cool environment and dampness.
• Frequent noise from saws.
• Exposure to cleaning solvents.
• Possibility of electrical shock.
• Fast-paced work environment.

Contacts

• Daily contact with customers.
• As-needed contact with vendors/suppliers.