What are the responsibilities and job description for the Produce Clerk position at Charter Senior Living?
Job Title: Produce Clerk
Description:
The Produce Clerk plays a vital role in the successful operation of the Produce Department. Their primary objective is to provide top-quality products and exceptional customer service to all Kennie's customers.
Responsibilities:
- Greet and respond to guest questions or requests in a courteous manner, explaining store policies as needed.
- Sell, wrap, and package merchandise for guests to purchase.
- Process special orders or requests from guests.
- Prepare and organize the cooler, freezer, and preparation area for receipt of merchandise, including unloading trucks, verifying invoices, inspecting deliveries for shortages, damage, and quality, sorting cases for stocking or product preparation, and coding date the product.
- Clean department floors, mirrors, cases, tables, coolers, freezers, equipment, preparation areas, and shelves while safely using cleaning equipment and chemicals.
- Maintain a neat, clean, and visually appealing department to increase guest sales.
- Ensure the safety of self, guests, and teammates by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying supervisors of any potential hazards immediately.
- Pick up broken containers, packing materials, and boxes from the sales floor or product preparation area immediately.
- Understand the operation, safety requirements, and restraints of various equipment, including balers, garbage disposals, juicers, pineapple corers, case cutters, pallet jacks, forklifts, intercoms, pricing guns, knives, and wrappers (must be 18 years or older to operate certain equipment).
- Count and record individual merchandise for inventory.
- Change department pricing as directed and manually price mark or label merchandise without an UPC code.
- Evaluate product quality and move damaged or unwanted products from the case to the preparation area, re-processing the merchandise into a saleable form or marking it down in price.
- Use proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to product.
- Remove trash from the aisle or product preparation area and operate the baler.
- Change signs, light bulbs, shelf signs, tags, and price markers on the case and shelf display.
- Communicate with the department manager on problems, recommendations, and merchandising ideas.
- Check case, cooler, and freezer temperatures four times daily.
- Replenish supplies on the sales floor and in the product preparation area.
- Record 'out-of-stock' conditions and the time they occur, reporting them to the department manager.
- Prepare, package, and label products, slice whole fruits and vegetables, salads, fruit baskets, nuts, candy, popcorn, and ensure country of origin labeling is applied to all items not individually labeled.
- Adhere to FIFO stocking rules, consistently rotating product on the sales floor, and pulling the oldest cases from the back room to stock with.
- Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substituting for absent workers, and performing additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to guests during peak business periods.
