Outpost Clerk

Three Bears Alaska, Inc.; Kenai (AK); On-site; USD 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Automatic raises

Job summary

Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is seeking an Outpost Clerk to stock, tidy, and assist customers in our store. You will monitor shelves, process payments, and ensure compliance with company policies and state laws during purchases.

Responsibilities include stocking products, maintaining signage, answering customer inquiries, and supporting the team with opening and closing duties. The role requires reliability, attention to detail, and a commitment to safety.

Qualifications

• Greet customers and provide prompt, courteous service.
• Stock and merchandise to maintain high levels; follow merchandising standards.
• Operate cash register and process payments (cash, checks, EBT, credit/debit) according to procedures.
• Conduct safety and security procedures; handle high-ticket items as required.
• Use hand-held scanners and assist with transfers and inventory.

Responsibilities

• Stock shelves and open cases; rotate merchandise and replace signage.
• Assist customers with product information and locate items.
• Clean and organize the department; manage trash and cleaning supplies.
• Answer phones and direct customers to product information.
• Close out cash register and manage funds per procedure.

Skills

Customer service

Merchandising

Stock management

Cash handling

POS system

Safety procedures

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Hand-held scanner

Cash register

Job description

Role Description

Outpost Clerks stock, straighten, and clean department and provide prompt and courteous service. This role includes performing background checks on gun sales in accordance with company guidelines and Federal/State laws and regulations and logging, inventorying, transferring, selling, and recording firearms according to company policy, federal, and state laws and regulations.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Follows merchandising standards and practices.
• Aligns product, collects and returns stray items, stocks to maintain high product levels.
• Rotates merchandise.
• Checks for accurate signage.
• Hangs and replaces computer generated product signs.
• Uses box knife to cut boxes for display/accessibility of product and to cut twine or shrink-wrap from pallet.
• Stocks opened cases on shelves.
• Uses hand-held scanning gun or keys item numbers when necessary.
• Transfers or ensures transfer of each item as number is scanned.
• Monitors all merchandise passing through register line, promoting accurate merchandise inventory.
• Requests supervisor verification for high-ticket items.
• Assists with transferring merchandise in carts and packaging orders, following all safety and security procedures.
• Receives accurate payment for goods, makes change, processes checks, EBT, credit and debit charges according to proper departmental procedures for paperwork and performance of duties.
• Counts register at sign on, orders change, makes witnessed drops of excess funds to vault, orders cash increases, and counts register at shift end to maintain accurate register funds.
• Performs related tasks, set-up and closing duties for department, such as putting returned or moved product back, collecting paperwork, stocking register, cleaning area, and retrieving carts.
• Moves and positions pallets of merchandise using manual pallet jack.
• Stacks product from partial pallets onto full pallets.
• Communicates with supervisors and managers to determine merchandising plan and priorities.
• Writes list of products to be brought from steel, by forklift driver, for stocking.
• Provides prompt and courteous customer service.
• Answers phones, directs customers to product, and assists customers with product information.
• Cleans department by sweeping, mopping, spraying, wiping, and dusting.
• Stocks supplies, empties trash, and operates trash compactor and cardboard baler.
• Operate cash register, hand-held/tabletop scanners, conveyor belt, carts, flatbeds, trash compactor, cardboard baler, electronic order gun.
• Assists in other departments of the store as necessary.
• Performs other functions as necessary or assigned.

Experience/Education

• A High School Diploma or GED is preferred.
• Customer service skills preferred.

Company Description

Three Bears Alaska is a family-owned chain of Alaskan grocery stores with so much more. We are committed to providing customers with quality goods and services at the lowest possible price. We strive to meet the needs of our customers by offering a diverse range of products and exceptional customer service. With multiple locations throughout Alaska, Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is dedicated to serving the local community and creating a positive shopping experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Colonial Life Elective Benefits
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Holiday Pay
• Automatic Raises of $1.00/hr every 1,040 hours worked
• Auto raises will be provided based on straight-time hours worked until top of pay scale is reached.

Pay Range

Starting at $15.00/hr (DOE)

Schedule

• Part-time
• Full-time
• Evening, Weekends and Holidays are required.

Office Location and Travel:

• LOCATION: In person
• Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Working Environment

Work is performed in a store setting with ability to speak and receive phone communications often. Work requires computer usage with strength, dexterity, coordination and visual acuity to use keyboard and video display terminal and other office equipment. Continuously standing, walking, reaching at/below shoulders, frequently lift/carry up to 20 pounds below waist, up to 50 pounds at waist/chest and occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description is intended to provide basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve.