What are the responsibilities and job description for the Market Associate - Meat position at Island Market IGA?
As a Meat Market Associate you’ll make important decisions about the quality, packaging, and display of our meat items for our customers and their families. This position will be on the front-lines of customer service, where your smile can make the difference between a good shopping experience and a great one.
What you will do:
- Provide excellent, professional customer service.
- Sells products by providing customers with information needed to make product-related decisions.
- Helps to verify and unload meat deliveries from trucks.
- Maintains, fills, and rotates product in meat cases.
- Moves meat from coolers to cutting area and returns cut meat to coolers.
- Display and rotate products according to department standards.
- Maintain proper signage, pricing, and labeling.
- Demonstrate good organizational skills.
- Ensure that department sanitation, cleanliness, and safety standards are met.
- Assist meat department coordinator and meat department staff as needed.
- May place orders as directed.
- Handling equipment including hand wrapping station, automatic wrapping station, pricing, and labeling scales.
Sound Like You? Here’s what you’ll need:
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Experience with inventory maintenance, and shrink control.
- Ability to maintain an efficient operation, troubleshoot and report any malfunctions of equipment.
- Maintain sanitation standards throughout the work area.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including opening, closing, and weekend shifts.
- Ability to read, write, and comprehend company documents.
- Assist with meeting the budget goals of the department.
- Follow policies for departmental success.
- Ability to function as a team member and get along with others.
- Ability to follow policies for departmental success.
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions:
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
- Standing/walking up to 6-8 hours.
- Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing, and pulling.
- Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting, and reaching.
- Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
- Exposure to temperatures below 32-degrees Fahrenheit.
- Ability to work in wet and dry conditions
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
Experience:
- Food handling: 1 year (Required)
- Cleaning: 1 year (Required)
- Food processing: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $14 - $16