Meat Clerk

Kroger Family of Companies; Cordova (TN); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger Family of Companies in Cordova, TN, is seeking a Meat Department Crew Member to assist with cleaning, stocking, and providing excellent customer service while upholding our core values of respect, integrity, and safety.

The role requires greeting customers, stocking and displaying foods, monitoring temperatures, ensuring freshness and quality, and maintaining clean sales areas and backrooms. Ability to work weekends/holidays and follow policies is essential.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills that engage customers and associates.
• Able to read shelf tags, signs, product labels, training materials, and bulletins.
• Ability to multitask, set priorities, present information in a professional manner and work with all levels of the organization.
• Personal initiative and follow through to completion.
• Ability to work as part of a team in a fastpaced environment.
• Must be able to work with various cleaning solutions, safely use sharp tools, and carefully operate all production equipment.

Responsibilities

• Wait on customers and provide cheerful service.
• Greet customers and offer high-quality food.
• Be prompt, tactful, calm, courteous, and professional.
• Communicate with customers and associates.
• Maintain clean, neat, and friendly impressions for customers.
• Unload and store merchandise and prepare/display foods per standards.
• Perform required temperature monitoring.
• Monitor product quality to ensure freshness and safety.
• Keep sales areas, backrooms, and coolers clean and organized.
• Keep floors clean, safe, and uncluttered.
• Wash and sanitize cookware and utensils per policies.
• Maintain signage, rotation, freshness, quantity, and space for merchandise.
• Maintain equipment and facilities safely per policies.
• Adhere to company policies and laws.
• Operate cash register per procedures where applicable.
• Work cooperatively in high-paced and sometimes stressful environments.
• Resolve conflicts in a cooperative, nonconfrontational manner.
• Protect customer and business information with honesty and integrity.
• Follow directions and seek help to resolve issues.
• Provide support interacting with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
• Perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Reading shelf tags

Multitasking

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Food handling safety

Job description

Perform general clean-up and stock work in the Meat department and provide customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Wait on customers and counter promptly and cheerfully. Greet customers and provide them with good quality food.
• Be prompt, tactful, calm, courteous, and professional in all interactions.
• Must be able to communicate with customers and associates.
• Make clean, neat, and friendly impression on customers.
• Unload and store merchandise, prepare and display foods in accordance with company standards, recipes, and policies.
• Perform required temperature monitoring.
• Monitor product quality; make sure it is always fresh and safe.
• Keep sales areas, backrooms, and coolers clean and well organized.
• Keep floors clean, safe, and free from clutter.
• Wash and sanitize cookware and utensils in accordance with company and Health Department policies and procedures.
• Maintain proper signage, product rotation, freshness, quantity, quality and proper space allocation for merchandise.
• Maintain equipment and facilities properly and safely in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Adhere to company policies and procedures, as well as State and Federal laws.
• Operate cash register in accordance with company procedures, as applicable.
• Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
• Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum

• Willing to work weekends and holidays.
• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills that engage our customers and associates.
• Able to read shelf tags, signs, product labels, training materials, and bulletins.
• Ability to multitask, set priorities, present information in a professional manner and work with all levels of the organization.
• Personal initiative and follow through to completion.
• Ability to work as part of a team in a fastpaced environment.
• Must be able to work with various cleaning solutions, safely use sharp tools, and carefully operate all production equipment.

Desired

• Past work record reflects dependability and integrity.
• Previous experience in food preparation.
• Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to employment practices, safety, and food handling.
• Experience in grocery retail and customer service.