Deli Cook

La-Montanita-Food-Cooperative; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

La Montañita Food Cooperative is seeking a Deli Cook to deliver exceptional customer service while preparing bakery products and deli items for display, hot foods, salads, and packaged goods. You will maintain cleanliness and safety across the department and help ensure a welcoming, helpful environment for shoppers.

The role emphasizes accuracy in labeling, dating, pricing, and merchandising, with opportunities to assist other departments and support store-wide safety initiatives.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Experience delivering full customer service cycle.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Food safety certification; if not certified, obtain within 1 month.
• Basic math skills: counting, addition and subtraction.

Responsibilities

• Follows labeling, dating, packaging guidelines for display and buffet cases.
• Serves case items following pricing, packaging, and weighing procedures.
• Orders, receives, and merchandises products with sanitation and quality standards.
• Replenishes products to ensure freshness and visibility.
• Maintains accurate, attractive signage within the department.
• Assists customers by answering questions about deli-bakery items.
• Ensures proper sanitation, labeling, dating and pricing per procedures.
• Prioritizes prep work, stocking, cleaning, and customer service for efficiency.
• Creates welcoming environment and provides helpful, respectful service to customers.
• Assists in inventory counts and storewide cleaning as needed.
• Reinforces safety procedures and reports unsafe conditions.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Math basics

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Dependable

Interpersonal skills

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Description

The Deli Cook is responsible for providing consistent exceptional customer relations, creating delicious bakery products, delicious packaged and hot/salad bar food for customers, and maintaining a full display of attractive fresh products. The Deli Cook also ensures the department maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers (may also assist other departments in these areas on occasions). Most importantly, the Deli Cook will make all customers feel welcomed by acknowledging or greeting each customer and providing genuine, helpful, and respectful customer service.

SOME ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Follows department guidelines and procedures for labeling, dating, and packaging products for display and buffet cases


• Serves case items following department guidelines and procedures for pricing, packaging, and weighing, as needed.


• Orders, receives, and merchandises products following proper guidelines for merchandising, rotation, sanitation, pricing, mechanizing, and quality standards.


• Consistently replenishes products to ensure freshness and visibility.


• Maintains accurate and attractive signage within your department.


• Helps customers make product selections by answering questions and providing information about all deli-bakery items.


• Ensures accurate and sanitary product processing, packaging, labeling, dating, and pricing according to department procedures.


• Prioritizes time to ensure that cooking and baking prep work, stocking, cleaning, and customer service are handled efficiently.


• Creates and maintains an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store by providing excellent customer service.


• Assists in inventory counts, storewide cleaning, and other projects as needed.


• Reinforces safety within the store by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management or addressing the concern if appropriate.


• Ensures federal, state, local and La Montañita Food Cooperative regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, sanitation and weights and measures are being adhered to and met.


• Maintains presentation and quality standards in the department.


• Follows proper procedures for opening and closing.

Requirements

SOME REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & ATTRIBUTES:

• High School diploma or GED.


• Customer service skills (able to complete the full customer service cycle).


• Effective communication skills


• Food safety certification. If not currently certified, able to obtain certification within 1 month.


• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition and subtraction)


• Ability to adhere and follow safety, regulatory and wellness guidelines. Safety Conscious and adhering to required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) is required.


• Good interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.


• Able to act with integrity, ethically, professionalism, and confidentiality.


• Able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.


• Able to deal and adapt to changes in the work environment, industry with a calm professional demeanor.


• Dependable, reliable and self-motivated.


• Able to work with a diverse group of people.