Meat/Clerk City Market

Fremont Economic Development Corporation; Vista (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local grocery store in Vista, California, is seeking a motivated individual for a position in the Meat department. This role involves providing customer service, maintaining cleanliness, and ensuring product quality and safety. Ideal candidates should have experience in food preparation and grocery retail, alongside strong communication skills. Willingness to work weekends and holidays is essential. Join a dedicated team and contribute to a friendly shopping environment.

Qualifications

• Willing to work weekends and holidays.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read shelf tags, signs, and product labels.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.
• Experience in grocery retail.

Responsibilities

• Provide customer service in the Meat department.
• Unload and store merchandise following company standards.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of sales areas.
• Monitor product quality to ensure freshness and safety.
• Operate cash register in accordance with company procedures.

Skills

Effective written and verbal communication

Multi-tasking

Teamwork

Dependability

Customer service

Education

Previous experience in food preparation

Knowledge of food handling laws and regulations

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.
• 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.

Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.