Meat Clerk

Hy-Vee Inc; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Hy-Vee Inc. is seeking a Meat Clerk to provide prompt, friendly customer service in the Meat and Seafood Department, wrapping, trimming, stocking, and receiving merchandise. You will greet customers, learn their names, assist with product placement, and coordinate with staff to maintain shelves and displays.

The role emphasizes teamwork, sanitation, and adherence to department guidelines. Physical tasks include lifting, standing, and operating standard butchery equipment in a fast-paced store

Qualifications

• High School or equivalent experience with food safety training.
• Six months or less of similar or related work experience.
• Ability to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or verbal instructions and handle concrete variables.
• Proficiency in simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

Responsibilities

• Provide prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern, and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smile and greet customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Make an effort to learn customers’ names and address them by name whenever possible.
• Assist customers by escorting them to desired products, securing out‑of‑reach items, loading or unloading heavy items, and passing along suggestions or requests to staff.
• Answer the telephone promptly when called upon and provide friendly, helpful service to callers, including taking customer orders.
• Work with co‑workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Wrap, weigh, and label product.
• Review the status and appearance of food for freshness, then stock or rotate product in cases.
• Finish trims on steaks, roasts, and chops, and prepare restaurant‑retail cuts, including traying seafood.
• Prepare and organize seafood items for display.
• Understand and practice proper sanitation procedures; keep the work area clean and neat.
• Replenish and organize coolers.
• Report out‑of‑stock products to appropriate personnel.
• Tray, slice, tenderize, and grind product.
• Remove trash in a timely manner.
• Maintain strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adhere to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Report to work on time when scheduled.
• Deal with customers daily and vendors/suppliers on an as‑needed basis.

Skills

Customer service

Food safety

Stocking

Merchandising

Teamwork

Education

High School or equivalent with food safety training

Tools

Knives

Grinders

Slicer

Tumbler

Job description

Meat Clerk

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service while wrapping, trimming, stocking, and receiving merchandise in the Meat and/or Seafood Department.

Reporting Relations

Accountable to District Store Director; Store Manager; Assistant Managers of Operations, Perishables, Health Wellness Home; Meat Department Manager; Assistant Meat Department Manager; Seafood Department Manager; Assistant Seafood Department Manager; Service Managers.

Positions that report to the Meat Clerk: Under certain circumstances, part‑time stockers may receive direction from the Meat Clerk.

Responsibilities

• Provide prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern, and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smile and greet customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Make an effort to learn customers’ names and address them by name whenever possible.
• Assist customers by escorting them to desired products, securing out‑of‑reach items, loading or unloading heavy items, and passing along suggestions or requests to staff.
• Answer the telephone promptly when called upon and provide friendly, helpful service to callers, including taking customer orders.
• Work with co‑workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Wrap, weigh, and label product.
• Review the status and appearance of food for freshness, then stock or rotate product in cases.
• Finish trims on steaks, roasts, and chops, and prepare restaurant‑retail cuts, including traying seafood.
• Prepare and organize seafood items for display.
• Understand and practice proper sanitation procedures; keep the work area clean and neat.
• Replenish and organize coolers.
• Report out‑of‑stock products to appropriate personnel.
• Tray, slice, tenderize, and grind product.
• Remove trash in a timely manner.
• Maintain strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adhere to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Report to work on time when scheduled.
• Deal with customers daily and vendors/suppliers on an as‑needed basis.

Secondary Duties

• Prepare some signs for the department.
• Order replenishment merchandise as directed by management.
• Assist in other areas of the store as needed.
• Perform other job‑related duties and special projects as required.

Qualifications

• High School or equivalent experience with food safety training.
• Six months or less of similar or related work experience.
• Ability to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or verbal instructions and handle concrete variables.
• Proficiency in simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

Physical Requirements

• Exert up to 85 pounds of force occasionally; up to 40 pounds of force frequently; and up to 10 pounds of force constantly.
• Visual requirements: vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
• Perform climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions

• Continuously exposed to a cool environment and dampness.
• Frequent noise from saws, exposure to cleaning solvents, and potential electrical shock.
• Fast‑paced work environment.

Equipment Used

• Knives, grinders, patty maker, tenderizer, slicer, pallet jack, tumbler, wrapping system, and rotisserie.