Grocery Clerk jobs in Columbus, GA

Department: Meat Department

Reports To: Store Manager and Market Manager                                  

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary

Job Overview: The Meat Cutter provides assistance to customers while performing key tasks that keep the meat department running smoothly. A successful Meat Cutter is friendly to his/her fellow employees and customers, stays busy maintaining and improving the meat department, and provides assistance to customers and staff. The Meat Cutter is key to the company because he/she is face to face with customers and plays a key role in the customer’s experience. The Meat Cutter performs duties that are critical to daily operations of the meat department and overall efficiency.

Essential Abilities, Process Behaviors and People Behaviors

• Planning Ahead: Think forward, anticipate issues and plan for contingencies.
• Attention to Detail: Check the detail for getting quality right.
• Following Procedures: Ensure that procedures and policies are followed correctly.
• Teamwork and Communication: Consult with others and encourage proactive communication within and across work groups with diverse personalities tactfully, maturely and with flexibility.
• Showing Responsibility: Build awareness of responsibility to the bigger team beyond immediate work tasks and colleagues.
• Effective communication, written and verbal, with team members and management.
• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities.
• Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner.
• Ability to be regular and predictable in attendance.
• Ability to work cooperatively with co-workers, managers, customers and the public.
• Good reasoning abilities and sound judgment.
• Ability to perform effectively and efficiently under sales and time pressures.
• Ability to follow directives and policies of the Company.
• Responsible to provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person about how sales are proceeding.
• Realizes that he/she must establish and maintain interpersonal relationships and maintain them over a period of time in order to properly do the job function.
• Support departmental goals of safety, quality and cost reduction.
• Responsible for assisting customers during their time in our store in a way that makes them feel comfortable and makes them want to return.
• Responsible for preparing meat in a safe and sanitary way that will make our customers want to return to our store.
• Responsible for keeping the meat department, coolers, and freezers safe, organized, and clean.
• Responsible for stocking all of the supplies that are used in the meat department.
• Responsible for taking trash out to the dumpsters.
• Responsible for being conscientious of profitability in all aspects of their job.

Essential Technical Skills, Qualifications, Education And/ or Experience

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications and Internet usage.
• Must possess strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure high level of quality.
• Good working knowledge and ability to operate a variety of office equipment and systems.
• Some meat cutting experience
• Meat cutting skills, Organizational skills
• Outgoing, helpful, responsible, productive personality
• Driver’s License

Education and Experience

• High School Education

Essential Physical/Mental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to read, understand, and apply written and spoken directions; write; count accurately; use basic math (addition and subtraction.). 

Physical abilities include and are not limited to:

• Handling large amounts of weight
• Being able to stand for long periods of time
• Being able to perform physically exhausting activities constantly
• Kneeling and reaching to stock meat and supplies
• Being able to work in extreme temperatures
• Being able to move and clean heavy equipment
• Working with knives and machinery in a safe manner

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is safety sensitive. Large machinery, cutting tools, heavy objects, raw food, chemicals, and many other dangerous objects are part of the work environment. Employees must be in a constant state of alertness and possess the physical and mental ability to work in this environment safely. The safety of our employees and customers is our number one priority.