Produce Clerk (60957)

Homeland Stores; Pryor Creek (OK); On-site; USD 13,431 - 19,286; Part time

Job summary

Homeland Stores is seeking a part-time Produce Clerk in Pryor Creek, OK. The ideal candidate will provide excellent customer service while maintaining company standards for perishables.

Your responsibilities will include assisting customers, ensuring health and safety codes, managing inventory, and maintaining attractive product displays. A high school diploma is required along with basic math skills.

This role involves working in varying temperatures and conditions, making it essential for candidates to adapt to the work environment.

Qualifications

• Must have basic mathematics skills for various tasks.
• Experience in a grocery setting with produce is preferred.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Greet and assist customers.
• Maintain safety and health standards.
• Organize and verify merchandise delivery.
• Compute retail prices and manage pricing signage.

Skills

Basic Mathematics

Customer Service

Food Safety Standards

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

Job Details

Level: Entry | Location: Homeland Store 539 - Pryor, OK 74361 | Position Type: Part Time | Education Level: High School Diploma or Equivalent | Salary Range: $9.75 - $14.00 Hourly | Job Shift: Open | Job Category: Retail Store Positions

Homeland is looking for passionate individuals who are ready to be an Employee Owner and deliver incredible customer service. Do you have a passion for food, love providing top-level customer service, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment? Oklahomans Feeding Oklahomans.

Produce Clerk

Primary Responsibilities

• Greet, assist, and ring out all customers politely.
• Maintain company standards for perishables and stay up to date on all active safety procedures.
• Ensuring Health and Safety Codes, checking for pricing and expiration, and maintaining an organizational standard area.
• Check, record, and retain cooler/freezer temperatures and maintenance.
• Stay up to date and in congruence with Health and Safety standards, as well as holding a working knowledge of cleaning supplies and various chemicals and machines within the department.
• Verify and successfully adjust the display of product so that displays are full, color contrast is emphasized, product is rotated, commodities are grouped, tables are set to the season, and adequate space has been allocated for high impulse/demand items.
• Perform preparation of the backroom for receipt of merchandise, checking the load for quality/shortage/overage and code‑dating all case items in the cooler, sorting cases by quality and degree of ripeness, storage of back stock, verification of the merchandise against the invoice.
• Comprehend and provide complex verbal instructions and descriptions concerning store policy and procedures, and usage of equipment.
• Organize the cooler/freezer/preparation area for receipt of merchandise, verify the merchandise against the invoice, inspect the delivery for shortages/damage and quality, sort cases for stocking or product preparation and code‑date all case items in the cooler/freezer.
• Compute retail price from cost, complete price changes, PLU file and scale system maintenance, supervise the manual price‑marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
• Move damaged/unsalable and returnable products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials, the return of damaged product to the warehouse for credit and re‑processing of product for sale or marking the product down in price.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Produce Clerk reports directly to the Produce Department Manager.

Qualifications

• Basic Mathematics: add, subtract, multiply, divide.
• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Prior experience with produce in a grocery setting.

Specific tasks

• Lift, twist, move and carry a maximum of 50 lbs., from the floor to shelving, or overhead racks in the store and cooler/freezer.
• Maintain active signage and pricing in all departmental areas.
• Care for signs, banners, and debris from daily operations.

Work Environment Note

Inside work with transitions of heat/cold/humidity/dust from backdoor, compressors, cooler/freezer, preparation area.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job. All employees must comply with Company policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of personnel may vary within reason.

Homeland is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Homeland is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Homeland will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact the store directly.