Butcher Block/Meat Clerk

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Butcher Block Clerk to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing exceptional customer service, processing fresh fish, trimming and cutting meat, seafood, and poultry, and maintaining the cleanliness of the work area and department.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service.
• Assist customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.
• Engage in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction.
• Use daily operation and production process following company procedures and profitability.
• Required to wash and process fresh fish.
• Trim, cut, wrap, trays, and displays meat, seafood, and poultry. Creates effective displays for meat, poultry, and seafood products, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product.
• Weighs, wraps, and prices Butcher Block meat and seafood. Stocks and rotates meat, poultry, and seafood products to ensure quality, freshness, selection, and adequate quantity to meet customer demands.
• Prepares seafood salads and cheese balls, cooks food samples and steams fish products.
• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. May be responsible for the operation and maintenance of meat cooler and freezer.
• Ability to follow and maintain department standards and requirements in handling quick sale items.
• Ensures temperatures are maintained in all phases of meat and seafood preparation, display, and storage.
• Specific knowledge of duties required by department employees.
• Responsible for assisting with Packaged Meat.
• Understands opening and closing department procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.
• May assist with physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.
• Controls inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes Butcher Block case.
• Controls shrink.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques.
• Uses and operates equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, safety cutters, wrapping machine, scales, tenderizer, steamer, grinder, and cutter.
• Accurately completes, maintains, and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Meat Grinding Log, Temperature Logs, Tare Logs, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.
• Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortages, stocking, and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records.
• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products to include accurate pricing and Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, Company, and code dating policies.
• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.
• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, cutting room and display area, including code date compliance as required.
• Complies with company grooming standards and dress code.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.

Skills and Physical Requirements:

• Requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain professional demeanor regarding customers and co-workers.
• Requires an understanding of overall company practices and Meat Department policies and procedures.
• Ability to frequently reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare, package and display products.
• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary. Able to stand for long periods of time.
• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
• Operates telephones, pallet jack, hand truck, knives, scissors, safety cutters, wrapping machine, scales, tenderizer, steamer, grinder, and cutter. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.
• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required.
• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.

Work Environment:

Generally, works in a temperature-controlled environment. Frequent exposure to refrigerated conditions and items at or around 35°. May be exposed to -20° F while handling products in freezer.

What You Bring to the Table:

• You take pride in the work you do, whether big or small.
• You agree that food is central to all our lives.
• Helping customers and fellow associates gives you energy.
• Smiling and making others smile is your favorite.
• You are eager, willing, and wanting to learn & grow.
• You believe that being a part of your community matters.

Why You Will Choose Us:

Albertsons Companies Inc. has always been a people-oriented business, and thoughtful people practices remain a core element of our company's philosophy. Our goal is to continue to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being and that starts with people like you bringing your unique self to our company and making it one person stronger and better.

Our Benefits:

• Diverse and Inclusive work culture
• Competitive Wages paid weekly
• Flexible work schedules
• Associate discounts
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth & development.
• Health and welfare benefits for eligible employees (Medical, Dental, 401k and more)
• Vacation / Paid Time Off

Our Values:

• We put people first.
• We are customer driven.
• We value different perspectives.
• We raise the bar.
• We act as owners.
• We are one team.
• We build belonging.
• We are committed to a healthy future.