Produce Associate: Fresh Produce, Customer Care & Merchandising

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe; Akron (OH); Presencial; USD 18.000 - 23.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe is seeking a Produce Clerk to provide excellent customer service and ensure high-quality produce. You will maintain stock, rotate items using FIFO, and keep displays tidy and accurately signed.

You will unload shipments, assist with pricing, and learn details about produce items to answer customer questions. The role requires attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment, and willingness to handle physical duties such as lifting up to 60 lbs.

Formación

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• ServSafe Food Handler Level 1 Certificate is required (can be obtained during employment).
• Previous experience in a front-facing retail environment is preferred.
• Previous experience with food handling or service is preferred.
• Experience with food prep is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Provides customers with prompt and courteous service and assistance.
• Greets customers as they enter the store through the department.
• Inspects products for quality ensuring any signs of spoilage, damage, or unwanted additions are resolved.
• Ensure produce environment is clean, sanitized, and presentable at all times; ensuring debris, trash, and other foreign materials are removed timely.
• Condition department according to produce leadership policy and direction including but not limited to: rearranging equipment, deep cleaning surfaces, reorienting displays, re-signing products.
• Maintain appropriate stock levels according to business needs at the direction of produce leadership.
• Rotate products according to First In First Out methodology.
• Arranges and rearranges displays in line with company presentation and display standards for produce department.
• Addresses pricing and signage issues timely, ensuring produce leadership is notified of any issues and discrepancies.
• Wash products according to produce department washing categories at instruction of leadership.
• Trim and prepare products according to produce policy and daily needs.
• Unload shipments according to inventory and dispersing as instructed according department needs.
• Ensure that backstock is properly rotated according to FIFO methodology.
• Learn and understand the taste, preparation, differences, uses, ripeness, and other aspects of products within the produce department.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Conocimientos

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Initiative

Stacking skills

Spatial reasoning

Verbal communication

Independent work

Knife skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Merchandising

Educación

High School diploma

ServSafe Food Handler Level 1

Descripción del empleo

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe is seeking a Produce Clerk to provide excellent customer service and ensure high-quality produce. You will maintain stock, rotate items using FIFO, and keep displays tidy and accurately signed.

You will unload shipments, assist with pricing, and learn details about produce items to answer customer questions. The role requires attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment, and willingness to handle physical duties such as lifting up to 60 lbs.