Bakery Clerk

SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To greet all customers, respond to customer questions/requests and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
• To sell, select, wrap/package the products customers want to purchase.
• To write down customers special orders/requests.
• To enter the customers purchases on the cash register, receive payment and make change when applicable.
• To prepare/organize the cooler/freezer/preparation area for receipt of merchandise, unload trucks, verify the merchandise against the invoice, inspect the delivery for shortages/damage and quality, sort cases for stocking or product preparation and code date the product.
• To clean department floors, mirrors, case, tables, cooler, freezer, production equipment, product preparation area, and shelves. Safely use cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• To load stocking carts/pallets, transport cases to sales floor/cooler/ freezer/product preparation area either on stocking carts or pallets, open cases, place merchandise in the designated cooler/freezer/case/ shelf/display position/area, check the product code/freshness date and "face/front"/rotate the front row of each display.
• To assure the safety of self, customers and co-workers by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately. Pick up/remove all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or product preparation area immediately.
• To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers during peak periods of business.
• To understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack, intercom, pricing gun, slicer, scales, wrapper, cash register, hot bar, fryer, stove, oven, proofer.
• To count and record individual items of merchandise for inventory.
• To properly use PLU and scale system.
• To evaluate product quality and move damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from the case to the preparation area, re-processing the merchandise into a saleable form or marking the product down in price.
• To remove trash from the aisle or product preparation area and operate the baler.
• To change signs, light bulbs, shelf signs/tags and price markers on the case/shelf display.
• To communicate with the department manager on problems, recommendation for change and merchandising ideas.
• To check case and cooler/freezer temperatures 3 times daily.
• To replenish supplies on the sales floor and in the product preparation area.
• To record "out-of-stock" conditions and the time they occur, report to the department manager.
• To prepare/package/label product and fill stock.