Job Description

Giant Eagle Corporate Market District

 

 

Job Title:  Produce Clerk

Department:  Produce

Supervisor's Title: Produce Manager

Date Completed:  3/11/09            

 

 

Position Summary:

A Produce Clerks' first responsibility is to receive product, prepare, weigh, price, and package produce and keep the produce rack rotated and filled to ensure customer requirements are met, and build customer loyalty by providing unparalleled customer service

 

Essential Functions:

• Actively support a culture of safety which includes, but is not limited to, food safety, Team Member safety and customer safety.
• Display a commitment to learn about food and share food knowledge with fellow team members and customers.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn, understand, and communicate the Market District Passion for Food philosophy, which includes the willingness to taste and experience new product offerings.
• Actively demonstrate appropriate suggestive selling techniques.
• Provide active sampling opportunities, when appropriate.
• Conduct business, at all times, with a clear understanding that customer service is a significant point of difference for the Market District banner.   Every interaction, whether with an internal or external customer, is to be conducted with the highest degree of integrity and with an understanding that the end result is to deliver service in an unparalleled manner.
• Actively participate in, and promote, an environment which embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for Team Members, Customers, Vendors, and the Community.
• Maintain cleanliness of equipment, tables, utensils, floor (to ensure safety), and sanitation regulations are met.
• Stock, rotate, and maintain produce racks.
  Prepare produce for display by following proper procedure.
• Knowledge of code dating.
• Follow proper procedures to ensure store meets out-of-stock percentage goals.
• Proper unloading and storage of food items in prep areas and coolers.
• Unload produce items from truck and break down pallets in produce room.
• Load flats with proper produce items to be taken to the produce floor and hand stacked
• Checking produce on display for quality by visually inspecting produce and removing from rack unsellable merchandise.

Formal Education  Required

•   High school diploma or equivalent

   Desired

 

Licenses or Certificates

•None

 

Skills

Accountability                         

Action-Oriented                      

Adaptability                            

Attention to Detail                   

Customer Service                    

Decision Making                     

Initiative                                  

Integrity and Trust                   

Listening                                  

Managing Diversity                 

Patience                                   

Tolerance for Stress                

Verbal Communication            

Written Communication           

Planning/Organizing                

Teamwork

Safety Awareness

Ability to follow direction /verbal and written

 

 

 

Experience  Required

•0-6 months

•Must be 18 years of age

Desired

•Prior experience working in Produce   or related industry

 

 

Job Complexity

•Work requires using different methods that are already available

 

Decision Making

•Decisions are simple and based on well-defined choices.

 

Authority

•Authority to make decisions or commitments within the limits of Company policies and procedures that are clearly specified.

 

Budgetary Responsibility

•Responsible for controlling some expense within a department.

 

Contacts

•Contacts limited to inside the department to give general information and answer questions, day to day contact with customers to give general information and answer questions

 

Supervisory Responsibility

•none

 

 

 

Equipment Used          

 

•Some Warehouse equipment used

•Some office equipment used

•Retail Equipment Used

 

Travel

•None

 

Physical Requirements

• Bending                                   
• Carrying                                    
• Grasping                                  
• Hearing (auditory)                   
• Lifting                                      
• Matching                                 
• Opening                                   
• Operating Equipment   
• Pulling                         
• Communication (verbal)         
• Walking                                   
• Weighing
• Pushing                                    
• Reading                                   
• Reaching                                 
• Repetitive Motion                   
• Sight or Peripheral Vision       
• Sorting                         
• Standing                                  
• Telephone Usage                     
• Twisting                                  
• Unlocking
• Writing

Working Conditions

• Work near moving mechanical parts
• Work in area with considerable dust at times
• Work in areas with considerable noise at times
• Work in areas with considerable hot conditions at times
• Work in areas with considerable cold conditions at times
• Work in area with considerable wet conditions at times

 

 

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