Do you have a passion for food, love providing top level customer service and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment? Since our employees are also owners, they care deeply about providing high quality service to each and every customer. Our mission as an employee owned company is to offer quality food choices to the communities we serve, support local farmers and producers, and develop and reinvest in our employee owners. Apply today and begin your ownership journey!

PURPOSE STATEMENT: To maximize sales and profit in the Produce Department through courteous customer service.

SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To greet all customers, respond to customer questions/requests and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
• To prepare/package/label product: a) slice whole fruits and vegetables, prepare fruit baskets and nuts.
• 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 all case items in the cooler.
• To review the perishable department Communication Board daily for updated material and follow the guidelines posted for the Sampling Program and intercom announcements.
• To clean department floors, mirrors, case, tables, cooler, freezer, production equipment, product-preparation area, and shelves. Safely use cleaning equipment and cleaning/sanitation 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 understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, garbage disposal, case cutter, pallet jack, forklift, intercom, pricing gun, knife, and wrapper (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, baler, and forklift).
• 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 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 4 times daily utilizing the time keeping system to record each check.
• 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 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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

REQUIRED:

• Basic mathematical ability (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and ability to count.
• Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment
• The ability to read and write English; able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper invoices and order forms.
• Make judgments concerning the placement of merchandise on the case/shelf/display, case-opening procedures, extent of unsalable product damage, conversation with customers, selling of product, display of product, use of packaging materials for product, quality of product for display and ordering of merchandise.
• Able to open cases and stock so that product will not be damaged.
• Able to clearly price-mark/label products for customers and cashiers.
• Good interpersonal communications.

PREFERRED:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience in a related type of job.
• Prior experience operating a baler, case cutter, cleaning/sanitation equipment, pallet jack, forklift, intercom, pricing gun, knife, and wrapper (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, baler, and forklift).

TASKS OF THE JOB – (Produce Clerk) This position generally requires:

• Mobility: To move cases from truck/pallet to backroom/preparation area to sales floor for preparation stocking, cardboard/packing material to the backroom, excess cases/damaged product from the sales floor to backroom storage, and to retrieve supplies/product/maintenance equipment from the backroom and return, approximate maximum 100 yards.
• To check the case/cooler/freezer temperature 4 times daily, approximately 25 yards.
• Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours in duration.
• To move a maximum of 75 lbs. from 6 inches to 36 inches.
• To move a maximum of 75 lbs. from 6 inches to 84 inches on to overhead/ cooler/freezer storage rack.
• Move a maximum of 75 lbs. up to 15 yards.
• Pick up/move/attach signage/sort/open"face/front" case/item/ trash from floor/shelf/cart/pallet/cooler/freezer storage.
• Reach forward/down with both hands up to 36 inches to prepare and package product.
• Use both hands to attain merchandise/cases on the top shelf of cooler/freezer storage shelves/rack, up to 84 inches from the floor.
• Reach forward/down with both hands up to 36 inches to attain merchandise on stocking cart, or pallets, place items on shelving/displays and to clean shelves/floor area.
• Reach up to place signs and banners in place.
• Handle labels/signs/tags, cardboard/packaging, debris and case-cutter/utility knife.
• Twist at the waist while cleaning, cutting/opening, sorting, load/ unloading, moving/removing merchandise and stocking merchandise.
• Move stocking carts, pallet jacks (up to 500 lbs.) and maintenance equipment approximately 25 yards.
• Climb on racks, cases and shelving up to 3 feet in height.
• Stock shelves, rotate product, and “face/front" shelves 8 inches from to floor to 48" inches in height.
• Recognize cases, case-cutter edge, case strips, shelf location, product size/description, customers, shelf tags, labels on product, stocking carts, packaging material, debris on the floor, aisle markers, and signs.
• Perceive color difference of product and product labels.
• Recognize cleaning/maintenance equipment, pallet jacks, baler and produce department preparation equipment controls.
• Perceive condition of product.
• Respond to customer, co-worker and vendor questions and responses.
• Respond to the sound of case cutter/department production equipment/baler/pallet jack/cleaning equipment operation "noises".
• Use and respond to the intercom/phone system.
• Read case labels/strips, signs, tags, shelf signs, equipment and chemical- warning labels, code dates, invoices, temperature gauges, reports, numbers and aisle markers.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Inside work with variations in heat/cold/dust/humidity caused by the opening of store entrance doors.