Meat Clerk

Kroger; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger is seeking team members for the Meat department to assist with general clean-up, stocking, and customer service. The role emphasizes upholding Kroger's values of respect, integrity, and safety while ensuring quality food and friendly service.

Responsibilities include greeting customers, handling merchandise, temperature monitoring, and maintaining clean, organized work areas in a fast-paced retail environment. Candidates should be reliable and able to work weekends or holidays if needed.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience and the ability to engage customers and associates.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task, set priorities, 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.
• Comfort with handling cleaning solutions and sharp tools in a safe manner.

Responsibilities

• Wait on customers and counter promptly and cheerfully; greet customers and provide quality foods.
• Be prompt, tactful, calm, courteous, and professional in all interactions.
• Must communicate with customers and associates.
• Make clean, neat, and friendly impression on customers.
• Unload and store merchandise; prepare and display foods per standards, recipes, and policies.
• Conduct 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 free of clutter.
• Wash and sanitize cookware and utensils per policies and health rules.
• Maintain signage, product rotation, freshness, quantity, and space allocation.
• Maintain equipment and facilities properly and safely as per policies.
• Adhere to company policies, state and federal laws.
• Operate cash register per procedures.
• Work cooperatively in a high-paced environment.
• Manage conflicts in a calm, cooperative manner.
• Act with honesty and integrity regarding information.
• Follow directions and seek help to resolve issues.
• Provide support to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Team player

Multi-tasking

Reading shelf tags

Safety awareness

Following directions

Honesty and integrity

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.

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 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.