Produce Clerk

Our Produce Clerks are devoted to ensuring proper presentation of our produce, cleanliness along with providing a smile and assistance to customers who visit the Produce department.

DUTIES

A Produce Clerk’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Providing premier customer service, including greeting them and responding to questions
• Filling and rotating produce cases and dry tables
• Unloading product from trucks
• Dynamically selling product by providing customers with information needed to make product-related decisions
• Breaking down pallets, separating produce for sales floor, cooler and/or back room prep area
• Processing and/or wrapping produce items prior to filling cases and dry tables
• Verifying ads, hanging current sale signs, and removing out-of-date sale signs
• Performing routine price changes on products
• Processing “Value Added Items” for Produce Specialty section
• Operating pallet jack, compactor and scrub machine
• Assisting in other duties, as assigned
• Able to work evenings, weekends and holidays
• Able to lift 40lbs

QUALITFICATIONS

Required: The required qualifications are as follows:

• 16 years of age or older but 18 or older to use sharp knives, use ladders, scaffolds or their substitutes above 6 feet in height, and to operate or assist in operating power-driven machinery or equipment
• Able to deliver friendly, courteous, prompt customer service
• Able to read, write, and do simple math problems
• Able to interpret, understand and follow instructions

Preferred: The preferred qualifications are as follows:

• Able to work well with others as a team member
• Previous experience in a major grocer an asset
• A passion for serving people

WORK CONDITIONS

A Produce Clerk’s duties are performed primarily in the sales, prep and back door receiving area. A Produce Clerk may be exposed to various temperature changes and work environments. Work includes eye-hand coordination, repetitive arm and hand movements, safe use of knives, along with frequent interaction with customers and associates.