Deli Clerk

Brookshire Grocery Company; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookshire Grocery Company is looking for a deli associate to ensure deli foods are prepared according to company standards. Responsibilities include assisting with food preparation, maintaining cleanliness, and promoting sales through customer engagement.

Applicants must be 16 years or older, with a required Food Handler certification. This role is essential in providing excellent customer service while ensuring food safety and quality in a retail store environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 16 years of age; must be 18 to operate equipment.
• Food Handler certification required.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare hot and cold deli foods according to standards.
• Assist with slicing, packaging, and labeling deli food.
• Promote sales through suggestive selling techniques.

Skills

Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes

Ability to read and operate digital equipment

Customer service orientation

Ability to communicate effectively

Education

Food Handler certification

Minimum of 16 years of age

Tools

Slicer

Calibrated scales

Job description

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) is based in Tyler, Texas and operates over 215 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma under five banners: Brookshire's Grocery Company, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, Fresh by Brookshire's, and Reasor's. BGC aims to provide a workplace where you can thrive, with opportunities for growth and a supportive team.

Job Summary

Ensures hot and cold deli foods are prepared according to Company standards. Promotes customer service by taking and filling customer order requests and maintaining attractive product presentation.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists deli personnel with slicing (Partner must be 18+ years), weighing, packaging, labeling, and preparing hot and cold deli food under supervision.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares equipment for operation, and examines to check working order under supervision. (Partners must be 18+years)
• Adheres to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating deli products.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations under supervision.
• Provides friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking orders by phone and in person.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Maintains 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. (Partners must be 18+ years).
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment. (Partners must be 18+ years).
• Ability to safely work with objects with sharp edges such as a meat slicer, knives, box cutters, etc. (Partners must be 18+ years).
• 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 and clean motorized equipment.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• 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 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.

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, disability, genetic information or military status and any other trait protected by law.