Produce Clerk

We are seeking a highly motivated and customer-focused Produce Clerk to join our team at Harps Food Stores. As a Produce Clerk, you will play a critical role in delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring the highest quality produce is available to our customers.

• Produce Department Operations: Support the daily operations of the produce department, including department readiness, staffing, supervision, price maintenance, policies and procedures, inventory preparation, department financial goals and objectives, department cleanliness, and safe use of equipment and tools.
• Replenishment & Inventory Procedures: Assist with replenishment and inventory processes, including ordering, replenishment, receiving, invoicing and accounting, back stock, reclamation and returns, damages and reworks, supply use and inventory preparation.
• Merchandising & Sales Floor Standards: Support merchandising and sales floor standards, including proper stocking, rotation, signing, setting and maintaining displays, sampling and overall department procedures.
• Fresh Food Preparation & Production: Maintain food safety standards, food preparation and production requirements, cool standards, and maintaining service counters.
• Problem Solving: Clearly define issues upfront and use critical thinking skills and logic to effectively obtain answers to questions through a conscious and organized manner.
• Safety/Quality Orientation: Consistently produce and emphasize the need to produce high-quality products and services while being aware of the issues and following procedures that affect personal safety and the safety of others.

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years old
• High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent preferred
• Ability to work flexible schedule including evenings, weekends and holidays as needed
• Adaptable to different situations and the ability to respond with flexibility to shifting priorities and rapid change
• Ability to interpret, understand and follow instructions
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner
• Moves, lifts, carries and places merchandise and supplies weighing less than or equal to 60 pounds without assistance
• Frequently reaches overhead and below the knees, including pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, crouching and twisting with or without bearing weight. Squatting, kneeling, climbing and/or crawling may be required occasionally
• Continuous repetitive motion with hand(s) and arm(s), such as grasping, gripping and turning
• Stands and/or walks continuously throughout shift
• Visually locates merchandise and other objects, as well as verifies information, often in small print
• May be exposed to all weather conditions (hot, cold, rain, snow, ice and wind) as well as, inside work with variations in heat, cold, dust and humidity
• May be exposed to cleaning solvents and chemicals
• May be exposed to latex, eggs, nuts, soy and wheat
• Employment at Harps may be contingent upon completion and our evaluation of PEP survey, drug screen, employment reference check and criminal background check