What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grocery Clerk position at Concord Food Co-op?
Description
Job Summary
Support department through assisting customers and ensuring shelves are well stocked and maintained.
About Concord Food Cooperative
Concord Food Co-op is a natural foods grocery store, bakery, and café with locations in Concord, NH and New London, NH. A pillar of Main St., the Co-op strives to support and enhance the New Hampshire community by stocking ethically-sourced natural foods and through positive cooperative action in-store and in the community.
Essential Job Duties
- Receiving, checking-in, and stocking incoming orders, ensuring invoice accuracy
- Cleaning, and facing grocery shelves, dairy, meat, and frozen cases
- Greeting and assisting customers in a friendly, courteous manner
- Maintaining date rotation, removing out-of-date product, and proactively preventing spoilage and waste
- Effectively communicates short dates, spoilage, and waste to department buyers and manager
Additional Duties
- May be asked to perform additional duties as required
Requirements
Essential Skills
- Ability to take direction and work independently with little to no supervision at times
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to effectively communicate with teammates and customers
- Ability to multi-task, strong attention to detail, and good organizational skills
Essential Mental & Physical Requirements
- Works with guidance from Department Manager
- Performs a limited number of tasks as dictated by department demands
- Relates information to diverse groups
- Makes independent decisions
- Ability to read and understand invoices and product tags and learn established organizational systems
- Standing, bending, walking, reaching, twisting, squatting, pushing, pulling, and fine motor skills
- Exposure to extreme temperatures, including periods below freezing and above 90 degrees
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. frequently
- Ability to use tools and equipment including box cutters, stepladders, and pallet jacks
Experience and Educational Requirements
- There are no educational requirements, though basic knowledge of natural and organic grocery products is a plus.
Other Qualifications
- Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA & other federal, state & local standards - including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards
- Ability to maintain reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA & other federal, state and local standards
- Compliance with all personnel policies
Important Disclaimer Notice
The job duties, elements and responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that the employee may be required to perform. The Co-op does reserve the right to revise this job description at any time and require employees to perform other job duties as assigned.
