Meat Clerk

We are looking for a Meat & Seafood Clerk to join the Meat Department Team. This role provides exceptional customer service by assisting patrons with their meat and seafood selections, providing information about different cuts, varieties, and weighing and packaging the products according to customer requests and store policies.

Our History

Located in SW Portland, Barbur World Foods has been serving customers since 2004. We provide our customers with both fresh produce, curated beer & wine selection, local meat & seafood, traditional Lebanese cuisine, international groceries and local culinary favorites from the Pacific North West.

Our Principles

All activities - from the day to day operations to the strategic growth of the business – are geared to support our principles.

Hospitality and Warmth

We want to do more than just provide a wide product selection and delicious food – we want to enrich our customer’s lives with customer service that demonstrates genuine warmth and hospitality. By engaging with our customers on a personal level, we elevate ourselves above being ‘just a business’ to being a cornerstone of the community we’re in.

Unique and Inspired Selections

From staples to local favorites to international specialty items, the products available at each grocery store location must consistently demonstrate our knowledge of local trends and show deference to international culinary favorites.

Working for Barbur World Foods means you will:

• Have the option to enroll in affordable health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Have the option to enroll in short-term-disability insurance.
• Be compensated based on your professional knowledge and experience.
• Receive a 50% discount at the deli and 20% discount on all other items at both World Foods locations.
• Option 401K
• Flexible paid time off that increases with tenure.

Here’s what we need from our Meat & Seafood Clerk:

• Experience: At least 6 months job experience. Customer service experience or similar role preferred.
• Ability to Learn Quickly: You learn new processes and procedures quickly and apply that knowledge in a way that supports business needs.
• Ability to Adapt: You appropriately view change as a necessary function of a growing business and adapt your work and communication style to best fit new processes, procedures, and business needs.
• Detail Oriented: You are precise in your work and are able to accurately input, and find errors, in large bodies of information.
• Dependability: You come to work prepared and on-time and use work time appropriately.
• Proactive: Within the boundaries of your position, you do your best to meet business needs without being asked.
• Multi-Tasker: You are prepared and able to handle multiple requests, questions, and concerns simultaneously and you naturally prioritize which item needs to be resolved first.
• People Skills: You absorb and process what you hear and see quickly and communicate relevant information in a manner that is readily understood by the intended audience.
• Customer Service Skills: You are able to work with a diverse group of customers in a way that engenders repeat business and customer loyalty.
• Culinary Skills: You passionate about food and take food preparation and creation seriously.
• Critical Thinking Skills: When something doesn’t work, you are able to either fix the problem or find an effective and efficient work-around.
• Linguistic Abilities: You’re able to write, read, speak, and understand English.

Essential Job Functions

As one of our Meat Clerk, you will be responsible ensuring that our customers provided consistently strong customer service.

• Collaboratively work with co-workers to keep meat and seafood cases well stocked and organized in a manner that is visually pleasing.
• Ensure proper inventory control and product rotation to maximize product freshness and availability, while minimizing waste.
• Assist all customers with special requests and answer questions about our meat products and services.
• Ensure all chilled foods are kept out of the danger zone by minimizing the amount of time product is out of refrigeration.
• Prepare, wrap, weigh, price, and merchandise department's products, using appropriate equipment as necessary.
• Follow established cleaning and sanitizing practices as outlined by the Meat and Seafood Manager, including using proper safety equipment when handling ready-to-eat foods.
• Assist in ensuring department is country of origin (COOL) compliant.

Capability Requirements

The following capabilities are required in order to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations that do not create an undue burden on the company are available to address the following requirements.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must possess a valid Food Handlers’ card.
• Sit and stand for prolonged periods of time.
• Use fine motor skills to grasp, move, and life items of up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• Bend, stoop, crawl, kneel, step up and down stairs, and climb
• Be able to recognize and respond to a variety of sounds.
• See at near and far distances.