Meat Clerk

WinCo Foods; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join WinCo Foods as a meat department associate where you will ensure high-quality customer service while handling and preparing meat products. This role involves wrapping, weighing, and pricing meat, along with maintaining cleanliness and product quality. With a commitment to inclusivity, WinCo offers a supportive environment for all employees.

Benefits

Top-tier medical plans

Tuition support

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older.
• Food Handlers Certification required.
• Ability to lift up to 60 lbs occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Wrap, weigh, and price meat products.
• Provide friendly customer service.
• Maintain cleanliness of the department.

Skills

Customer Service

Food Safety

Basic Math

Education

Food Handlers Certification

Tools

Scales

Wrapping Machines

Slicers

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About Us

Join us at WinCo Foods, where we're more than just a grocery retailer - we're a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. Currently, WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States, with more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Our benefits, including top-tier medical plans and tuition support, set us apart. In your role, you'll be instrumental in making a real impact in the communities we serve, embodying our purpose every day.

Overview

Job Summary

Ensure meat is wrapped, weighed, and priced properly. Operate wrapping machine. Provide customer service and ensure product quality and selection. Maintain cleanliness of department and equipment. Consistently provide friendly, courteous customer service to internal and external customers. Perform other related work.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve, and thank customers. Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis on taking care of the customer.
• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on fast, friendly, courteous customer service.
• Answers questions from customers.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
• Weighs, trays, grinds, wraps, and prices poultry and meat.
• Prevents sale of spoiled and outdated product by following laws and company policy on weighing, labeling, code dating, processing re-worked or reduced-to-clear items, etc.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product, signing, inventory level in retail cases, and eye-appeal of the department.
• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of work area, equipment, cutting room, and retail cases according to company policy and legal regulations.
• Stocks and rotates product.
• Consolidates racks by moving trays from one rack to another.
• Cleans mirrors, glass, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed.

Requirements

Ability to:

• Consistently provide friendly, courteous service to internal and external customers.
• Work varied hours primarily between 5:00 am to 11:00 pm in a 24/7 operation; including night, weekends, and holidays.
• Perform friendly, courteous, tactful interactions and maintain composure in dealing with customers and coworkers.
• Conduct visual inspections, read production guides, and product labels.
• Properly use cleaning chemicals in accordance with manufacturer’s guidelines and instructions.
• Properly handle related food products per State and County laws, and WinCo standards.
• Read and follow written work assignments and instructions.
• Communicate (hearing & speech) when working on the sales floor.
• Reach, lift, and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 25 lbs. frequently and 30-60 lbs. occasionally.
• Push and pull fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks.
• Perform repetitious arm movements required to wrap, slice, and process products.
• Stand for long periods, walk, move rapidly, bend, twist, and turn frequently.
• Operate related equipment with manual dexterity and hand/eye coordination.
• Work in refrigerated areas (32 to 50°F).
• Handle moisture-exposed hands while handling and stocking poultry and meat.
• Learn product variability, perishability, safety, sanitation procedures, and department policies.
• Perform basic math (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and compute weights and measures.
• Wear hats, hairnets, gloves, and other PPE as required.
• Must be 18 years or older.
• Perform duties efficiently and accurately.

Additional Requirements

• Food Handlers Certification (per State Laws)

Machines and Equipment Operated

• Scales, wrapping machines, slicers, cubers, pallet jacks, bailer, and hand trucks.

The above statements describe general work performed by employees in this role. All employees must comply with company policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities, duties, and qualifications may vary.

EEO/Inclusivity

As WinCo Foods continues to grow, our diverse perspectives and wide range of experiences are vital to our success. We are committed to cultivating and celebrating an inclusive environment where all employees are valued and respected.