Meat Clerk/Seafood Clerk

Meat Clerk Job Description

As an associate of Kroger, the basic objective of your position is to satisfy our customers by providing exceptional customer service in a safe and clean environment to ensure the customer’s return visit. We accomplish this in many ways including, but not limited to: treating our customers/employees in a fair and ethical manner, promoting an inclusive work environment, being a responsible member of the community, and providing the right products at the right time with fair and accurate pricing.

The job description below focuses on our # 1 priority – “The Customer.”

Embrace Customer 1st Philosophy

• People: Our people are great

• Shopping Experience: Makes you want to return

• Product:: You get what you want, plus a little

• Prices: Our prices are good

Essential Functions

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conduct yourself in a professional manner, displaying a positive attitude, speaking highly of the company in the presence of customers or other employees

• Follow established Personal Appearance policies and guidelines

• Understand and adhere to policies and procedures pertaining to safety

• Understand and adhere to polices and procedures pertaining to shrink

• Unload meat from the delivery truck onto a cart and move it to the freezer and display area

• Stock the freezer with boxes of various meats and display cases with lunch meats, chickens, etc. Set meat counter with the various cut meats and other products

• Maintain sufficient department stock levels

• Understand and adhere to company policies and procedures that pertain to product dating and rotation

• Understand and adhere to policies and procedures pertaining to sanitation

• Understand and adhere to polices and procedures pertaining to temperature logs

• Understand and adhere to policies and procedures pertaining to grinding logs

• Prepare customer orders

• Understand the proper ways to weigh and wrap the product and attach the proper label

• Maintain a clean and safe department

• Break down and clean equipment, clean out the display cases, and dispose of product that is no longer suitable for sale (this involves contact with water and various cleaning products)

• Operate a box baler (must be at least 18 years old)

• Must know the correct procedure to cut the various species(?) as well as how to weigh and wrap the products

• Help prepare for department inventory audit for accounting of product and supplies

The Meat Clerk may be assigned to perform other tasks in addition to those discussed above.

Kroger Physical Demands Analysis

Job Title: Meat Clerk Job description includes demands for meat wrapper, and lunchmeat clerk.

Type of Industry: Grocery Store

Description:

• Greet customers and answer questions

• Unload delivery trucks and stock freezer and display cases

• Set meat counter with product as well as rotate product

• Prepare customer orders by cutting, weighing, and wrapping product

• Clean work area

Work Schedule

Typical shift length: 8 hours

Number of days worked each week: 5 days

Time allowed for breaks: 30 minutes

PHYSICAL DEMANDS ANALYSIS

1. Standing and Walking

Tasks: All tasks require standing and walking.

Surface: Tile and concrete

Estimated total time: 7.5 hours

Maximum continuous time: 4 hours

2. Sitting

Tasks: No work activities require sitting. Sitting is only done while on break.

Estimated total time: 30 minutes

Maximum continuous time: 30 minutes

3. Lifting and Carrying

Objects lifted: boxes/cases of frozen beef, pork, and chicken; lunchmeats and packaged meats

Max weight: 100lbs (need to justify)

Average weight: 30-40lbs

Min/Max lift points: 0”-90”

Distance carried: Less than five feet

Lifting: Varied weight demands chart

Weight Range:
(Continuously, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Never)

• < 10lbs: Continuously
• 11-25lbs: Continuously
• 26-50lbs: Daily
• 51-75lbs: Daily
• 76-100lbs: Monthly (Needs justify)
• >100lbs: Never

4. Pushing and Pulling

Objects Pushed/Pulled: Carts, tray racks, and flat beds loaded with product

Max. Force: Minimal

Distance: Across store

Frequency: Daily

5. Endurance Requirement

This job requires a medium aptitude for ambulation stamina.

6. Climbing

Tasks: Reaching stored product on higher shelves, reaching disposable meat trays

Device: Step ladder

Height: 3 feet

Frequency: Daily

Under Load: Yes

7. Bending/Squatting/Kneeling

Tasks: Reaching product at ground level, stocking display shelves at lower heights

Frequency: Hourly (5-6 hours continuously during deliveries)

8. Extended Reaches

Tasks: Reaching trays, wrapping packaging meat, stocking display units and cases,
washing/rinsing product

Hands Used: Either/Both

Distance: 0-2" Direction: all Frequency: continuously Duration: seconds Avg. Weight: 15lbs

Distance: 20-36" Direction: overhead Frequency: hourly Duration: seconds Avg. Weight: 15lbs

9. Work Conditions

Exposure to (Yes, No)

• Hot temperatures: Yes
• Cold temperatures: Yes
• Sudden changes in temperature: Yes
• Fumes: No
• Cramped quarters: No
• Sharp edges: Yes
• Hammering or impact tools: No
• Tool vibration: Yes
• Whole body vibration: No

100% Inside 0% Outside

10. Other Job Demands

Does Job Require (Yes, No)

• Crawling: No
• Walking Across Sloped Surfaces: No
• Lying on Back: No
• Lying on Stomach: No
• Twisting: Yes
• Neck flexion/extension: Yes
• Cervical rotation: Yes
• High grip strength: Yes
• Driving a vehicle: No
• Frequent forearm supination/pronation: Yes
• Frequent and/or sustained awkward wrist positions: Yes

11. List tools, equipment, and materials

• Box cutters, knives
• Carts, flatbeds, u-boats, tray racks
• Register, scale, and printer
• Step ladder

Disclaimer
The physical demands, job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, and the requirements and conditions listed in this Physical Demands Analysis are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The employer reserves the right to revise this Physical Demands Analysis at any time and to require employees to perform other duties as circumstances dictate or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, technological changes and/or advancements of the work environment.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $11.60 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Grocery store

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Evening shift
• Weekend availability

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: One location

Salary : $12 - $0