Meat Dept Clerk: Fresh Prep & Customer Care

Mariano; Park Ridge (IL); On-site; USD 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Flexible scheduling

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Career growth

Job summary

The Kroger Family of Companies is seeking a store associate to perform general clean-up and stock work in the Meat department while delivering excellent customer service at 1900 S Cumberland Ave, Park Ridge, IL 60068. You will greet customers, handle food prep and display, and help maintain clean, safe sales floors and backrooms.

Responsibilities include temperature monitoring, product quality checks, equipment upkeep, and ensuring compliance with company policies and health regulations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills that engage our customers and associates.

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.

Skills

Customer service

Food handling

Communication skills

Teamwork

Job description

The Kroger Family of Companies is seeking a store associate to perform general clean-up and stock work in the Meat department while delivering excellent customer service at 1900 S Cumberland Ave, Park Ridge, IL 60068. You will greet customers, handle food prep and display, and help maintain clean, safe sales floors and backrooms.

Responsibilities include temperature monitoring, product quality checks, equipment upkeep, and ensuring compliance with company policies and health regulations.