Produce Stocker Clerk

Good Harvest Market, Waukesha County's largest independently owned natural grocer, is currently seeking to hire a full-time Produce Stocker Clerk. Along with stocking, this role will also assist in our fresh cut fruit program, ensuring prepared and packaged cut fruits are available on our produce floor for our customers to purchase. Flexible retail availability including a blend of mornings, evenings and weekends is required.

This is a physically demanding position that is tasked with stocking large boxes/bags of produce inventory. The ideal candidate for this role can handle and enjoys physical labor and can frequently lift up to 70 lbs.

Our produce department features only certified organic produce, sourced locally whenever possible. We focus on artful displays of seasonal produce and intensive customer service.

About you

• Our mission statement speaks to you: “To passionately serve and nourish our community with organic, local, and more sustainable options”.
• You like to turn frowns upside down.
• You value independently owned businesses and believe people can vote with their dollars.
• You can endure and enjoy a physical job.
• You have strong people skills and enjoy greeting customers; our produce department is the first department most of our customers will visit

About us

• We pay weekly. Every Friday.
• All of our employees enjoy a generous 25% in-store purchase discount on all of our exceptional products, including in our public house restaurant, Hop Harvest & Vine.
• We offer both full and part time staff participation in our Simple IRA Retirement Match plan (must be at least 18 years old).
• We offer full time team members paid holidays, paid time off, enrollment in our group health care plans (medical, dental, vision) and we pay for life and disability benefits. We offer part-time employees working 20+ hours per week paid holidays.
• When advancement opportunities become available we will always look within first.
• We provide an educational, team oriented environment. Our employees love working together

Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Stocking (including washing, bundling and trimming), rotating, merchandising and facing product according to department procedure and management expectation.
• Properly maintains produce wet rack.
• Maintains knowledge of produce, with an emphasis on organic production, and provides information to customers regarding use and preparation.
• Maintain sample product on floor (rotate, maintain, and dispose of as needed).
• Disposes of culls according to department procedure.
• Maintains back-stock areas according to department standards.
• Properly opening and/or closing the department as directed.

Qualifications:

• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Minimum one year prior produce stocking experience preferred.
• Flexible retail availability, including weekends and holidays.
• Ability to lift up to 70 lbs. regularly.
• Ability to stand for 4+ hours at a time.
• Strong work ethic.

Environmental/Physical Conditions

• Constant walking, reaching, and bending,
• Frequent squatting, climbing, and lifting.
• Temperatures of environment will vary. (working walk-in and reach-in refrigeration units for extended time periods, unloading pallets outdoors in cold/hot/rainy/snowy weather)

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE:

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations or the work environment change.