Meat Clerk

Kroger; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger in Lafayette, IN is hiring for a Meat Department Associate to perform general clean-up, stock work, and provide friendly customer service. You will help maintain clean, safe, and well-organized sales floors, assist customers, and follow company policies and health department guidelines.

The role requires weekend and holiday availability, strong communication, teamwork, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment. Prior food retail experience is a plus, but not required.

Qualifications

• Effective written and verbal communication with customers and staff.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced setting.
• Willingness to work weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Wait on customers and greet them with quality service.
• Unload and store merchandise and display foods per standards.
• Monitor temperature and ensure product freshness and safety.
• Keep sales areas, backrooms, and coolers clean and organized.
• Operate cash register per company procedures.

Skills

Communication

Multitasking

Teamwork

Customer service

Reading shelf tags

Availability weekends

Professionalism

Job description

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.

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 multi-task, 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 fast-paced 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.