Grocery Clerk (Waimea Store)

Job Title: Grocery Clerk

Department: Grocery

Reports to: Grocery Manager

POSITION SUMMARY: Stocks merchandise and prepares displays, while maintaining a neat, clean and safe environment, while providing standard customer service.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (responsibilities include, but are not limited to):

- Greets customers when within ten feet and four seconds of contact

 - Assists customers on the grocery floor by finding items, returns stray items to their proper area, and removes damaged products from customer view

- Stocks and rotates grocery items, while keeping all labels faced forward

- Pulls empty cardboard boxes off the shelves from around the store and bales boxes following proper equipment procedures

- Provides some cashiering and bagging help when needed, register accuracy, knows/ carries out proper register procedures

- Returns misplaced products to their appropriate area, while maintaining product freshness by returning all perishables and frozen items to their proper areas promptly

- Performs other related duties as needed as assigned by manager

OTHER DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Use of proper safety procedures

- Able to multitask, listen to directions and follow through independently

- Able to deal with difficult customers, have good communication and observation skills

- Able to work with a team and independently when needed

EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION:

- High school / Secondary school diploma or GED

- Must be at least 18 years of age to ring register and operate machinery

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

- Previous experience working with the public

- Able to use box cutters

- Knowledge of location of products

- Working knowledge of produce codes required, while able to differentiate between different produce products required when ringing

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

- Air condition while in store, subject to outside conditions of heat, rain, and wind, chill temperatures when products need to be retrieved from chill and freezer

- Very fast paced

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

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

        N (Not Applicable)        Activity is not applicable to this occupation.

        O (Occasionally)            Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0-2.5 hrs./day)

        F (Frequently)                Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 – 5.5 hrs./day).

        C (Constantly)                Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5 hrs./day)

OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS:

·        Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception)

·        Sense of Sound (Hear oral communication and buzzers/alarms)

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included.  It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee’s ability to perform the position described.  It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities.  Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.  This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.