What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grocery and Produce Clerk position at Georgetown Market?
Description
Directly Reports to: Grocery and Produce Manager
Georgetown Market is an independent, family-owned Natural Foods Store and Eatery, firmly rooted on the west side of Indianapolis, Indiana, since 1973. Our customers trust us to share our expertise and provide them with quality products and outstanding service.
Position Summary: Grocery/Produce Clerks are responsible for a variety of duties around the department, including stocking, cleaning, and customer service.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Providing excellent customer service: greeting customers, helping them locate items, providing information about our products, answering phones, making recommendations, and taking special orders.
- Stocking and merchandising duties: lifting, rotating, straightening, and facing products on shelves, endcaps, displays, and in coolers and freezers. Ensuring products are accurately labeled and changing sales tags as needed.
- Attending to produce set: stocking, culling, trimming, and watering.
- Inventory management: date checking, informing management of low inventory levels, and maintaining an orderly backstock room.
- Cleaning and maintenance: dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, and other general tidying.
- Safety and compliance: ensuring customer and staff safety by following proper protocols. Notifying store management of unsafe conditions or broken equipment.
- Expanding knowledge: being inquisitive and learning about the products we carry.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Must be able to lift up to 50lbs.
- Basic math skills.
- Knowledge of healthy foods is a plus.
- A strong attention to detail.
- Good judgment, the ability to make sound decisions and to solve problems.
- Friendly and positive attitude.
- Commitment to company values.
- Must be available for evening and weekend shifts. Some Sundays are required.
- Bilingual candidates are encouraged.
Americans with Disabilities Specifications
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.
Physical Summary
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to operate mechanical equipment, sit, talk, hear, grasp, push, stand, walk, drive, reach with hand/arms, occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, climb with occasional repetitive wrist, hand and/or finger movement. The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to 40 pounds, and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Hearing capacity required to maximize ability to understand all verbal communication and react accordingly.
Georgetown Market is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected Veteran status.