Produce Clerk

Produce Clerk - FT 40 hrs per wk

Department: Produce

Reports To: Produce Manager
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Salary Level: $17.00 to $24.00 / hr.

Summary: Responsible to stock and display fresh produce while providing prompt, friendly, helpful customer service to meet department goals for sales, margins, labor productivity and customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Include the following: Other duties may be assigned.

Customer Service:

• Assist customer in a prompt and courteous manner, exceeding expectations for service
• Provide samples of produce that should be promoted, having tasted it first to ensure quality

Quality:

• Replenish displays daily by rotating and culling, keeping organic, conventional and transitional separate
• Prep produce
• Dispose of produce that is unsuitable for sale by selling, giving to deli or throwing inedible product in compost. Sell edible produce at discount by doctoring-up, repackaging, and labeling
• Keep back stock produce stored properly
• Know how to receive and price orders

Safety and Security:

• Keep produce room, cooler and sales floor tidy and produce displays tidy and fully stocked
• Use equipment safely. Advise manager of equipment repair and replacement needs
• Deal with shoplifters, disorderly customers, and medical emergencies in accordance with established procedures

Department Maintenance:

• Keep well informed about products by asking questions, using produce reference book and tasting small samples of new produce
• Participate in monthly inventories
• Give constructive feedback to manager and buyer when necessary
• Attend department and storewide meetings
• Perform other tasks as assigned by manager

Responsibilities to Safety:

• Protect the safety of self, co-worker's, and BriarPatch Co-op patrons at all times
• Report any potentially harmful equipment or situations to the immediate supervisor without delay
• Report safety-related accidents and incidents at once to supervisor
• Follow all company and safety policies and procedures
• Operate equipment in a safe manner that will not lead to injury of self or others

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED certificate preferred. Prior experience in working with produce preferred; interest in learning about produce required.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or electronic form

Computer Skills: An individual should have knowledge of:

• Internet software
• Inventory software
• Order processing systems
• Spreadsheet software and
• Word Processing software

Physical Demands: 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Stand
• Walk
• Use hands and fingers
• Handle or feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Stoop
• Kneel
• Crouch or crawl
• Talk or hear
• Taste or smell
• Be regularly exposed to natural oils, chemicals and odors/fragrances, including perfumes, colognes and scented lotion
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds safely

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to a moderate to high level of noise and changes in temperature including wet and/or humid conditions; cold refrigerated environments; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The position may occasionally be exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.

Responsibilities to Sustainability:

• Contribute to sustainability efforts at BriarPatch that support a sustainable community through:
• Minimizing waste by reducing and reusing materials and resources when possible.
• Proper recycling and composting.
• Water & energy conservation.

Responsibilities to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

• Value and support a work environment that includes people of different identities from diverse backgrounds