Deli Clerk

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Overview

At Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), we’re about building a community where you can thrive. Based in Tyler, Texas, BGC operates over 215 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma with five banners:
Brookshire's Grocery Company, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, Fresh by Brookshire's, and Reasor's.

Job Summary

Ensures hot and cold deli foods are prepared according to Company standards. Promotes customer service by taking and filling customer order requests and maintaining attractive product presentation.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists deli personnel with slicing (must be 18+), weighing, packaging, labeling, and preparing hot and cold deli food under supervision.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares equipment for operation, and inspects for working order under supervision (18+ years).
• Adheres to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating deli products.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards under supervision.
• Provides friendly, customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and taking orders by phone or in person.
• Promotes product sales through suggestive selling initiatives.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

Knowledge,

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.
• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a slicer (18+ years).
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment (18+ years).
• Ability to safely work with objects with sharp edges such as a meat slicer, knives, etc. (18+ years).
• Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools under supervision.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with customers and partners in written and verbal form.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around hazards as soon as possible.
• Must report potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience And Qualifications

• Minimum age: 16 years; must be 18+ to operate and clean motorized equipment.
• Partners must be 21+ to drive for Company business per the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• Typically involves on-the-job training.
• Food Handler certification required.

Physical Demands

• Continuous use of close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or focus.
• Continuous standing or walking.
• Continuous use of hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Frequent fine finger movements and bending, kneeling, squatting, or stooping.
• Frequent lifting up to 40 lbs; occasionally up to 75 lbs.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context And Environment

• Retail store setting; exposure to extreme cold/heat (non-weather) and wet or damp conditions.
• Exposure to equipment with sharp blades or edges under supervision and to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.

Compliance and EEO

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug- and alcohol-free environment. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or military status and any other trait protected by law.

Senioriry level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Retail

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