Market Clerk

Brookshire Grocery Co.; Canton (TX); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical vision dental

Paid time off

401(k)

Employee discounts

Scholarships

Outdoor recreation area access

Job summary

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) in Tyler, Texas is seeking a team member for our market/meat department. You will ensure market and seafood cases are full, rotated, and fresh, performing basic duties like trimming, weighing, packaging, and labeling products while delivering friendly customer service.

Responsibilities include cutting and preparing meat products, stocking and rotating inventory, maintaining equipment, and promoting sales through attentive service.

Qualifications

• Minimum age 18.
• Food Handler certification is required.
• Able to operate and clean motorized equipment and knives.
• Willing to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Excellent customer-service skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling meat products.
• Stock, rotate, and verify coolers and freezers per guidelines.
• Operate and clean department equipment; ensure safe handling of knives and tools.
• Promote sales through suggestive selling and attentive service.
• Greet customers and take orders in person or by phone.
• Maintain clean, safe working and shopping areas.
• Stack pallets and place products according to efficiency standards.

Skills

Read digital equipment

Operate equipment safely

Knife handling

Pallet jack operation

Team player

Customer service

Communicate effectively

Flexible schedule

Education

Food Handler certification

On-the-job training

Job description

At Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), we’re not just about business—we’re about building a community where you can thrive. Based in Tyler, Texas, BGC is home to five unique banners—Brookshire’s Grocery Company, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, Fresh by Brookshire’s, and Reasor’s—operating over 215 + stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

We’re all about creating a workplace where you can thrive. At BGC, you matter, your contributions are celebrated, and your future is unlimited. Whether you’re launching your career or ready to level up, you’ll find a supportive team, endless growth opportunities, and a chance to make an impact.

Here’s what sets us apart:

• Wellness that works for you: Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and prescription coverage.
• Flexibility and freedom: Paid time off to relax, recharge, and enjoy life.
• Ownership that empowers: 401(k) plan to help you build a solid future that the Company contributes to.
• Savings for your lifestyle: Exclusive employee discounts on the things you need most.
• Investing in your dreams: Scholarships and educational support to fuel your growth.
• Adventure awaits: Access to a 205-acre outdoor recreation area for unwinding, connecting, and having fun.

When you join BGC, you’re not just starting a job—you’re becoming part of something bigger. We’re here to support your goals, inspire your journey, and celebrate your wins.

Job Summary:

Ensures market and seafood cases are kept full, rotated, and fresh with prepackaged meats. Performs basic duties including trimming, weighing, packaging, and labeling products as needed, as well as promotes customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists with cutting, weighing, packaging, and labeling product. Uses non-precision and precision tools and/or instruments to cut or trim unfinished meat products into desired sizes, shapes, and/or weight.
• Adheres to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating market products. Ensures that coolers and freezers are organized according to Company guidelines. Adheres to all governmental product origin labeling.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares equipment for operation, and examines to check working order. (Partners must be 18+years)
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
• Provides friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking orders by phone and in person.
• Maintains 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.
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, meat grinder, box cutters, etc.
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.
• Ability to operate a manual or electric pallet jack.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bailer, etc.
• 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 18 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.
• 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.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Moderate to loud noise level.

Ready to find your place? BGC is “A Career Where You Belong.”

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug and alcohol-free environment for its partners and customers. 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 , disability, genetic information or military status and any other trait protected by law.