Bakery/Deli Closing Clerk

Harp's Food Stores • Malden, MO

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Bakery/Deli Closing Clerk role focuses on delivering exceptional customer service and supporting department operations. This involves ensuring department readiness, managing inventory, maintaining merchandising standards, preparing fresh foods, and problem-solving. The role emphasizes building relationships, conscientiousness, customer service, integrity, and professionalism. The ultimate goal is to exceed customer expectations and support the company's mission statement of providing the best overall value through competitive prices, product quality, freshness, friendly service, and cleanliness.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Ability to work a 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.
• Moves, lifts, carries and places merchandise and supplies weighing less than or equal to 25 pounds without assistance.
• Frequently reaches overhead and below the knees, including pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, crouching and twisting with or without bearing weight.
• Occasionally required to squat, kneel and climb.
• 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 or other chemicals.
• May be exposed to latex, eggs, nuts, soy and wheat.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent preferred.
• No previous work experience required.

Responsibilities

• Support bakery/deli department operations 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.
• Support replenishment and inventory processes including ordering, replenishment, receiving, invoicing and accounting, back stock, reclamation and returns, damages and reworks, supply use and inventory preparation.
• Support merchandising and sales floor standards including proper stocking, rotation, signing, setting and maintaining displays, sampling and overall department zoning procedures.
• Support fresh food preparation and production including maintaining food safety standards, food preparation and production requirements, cool standards and maintaining service counters.
• Clearly define issues upfront and then use critical thinking skills and logic to effectively obtain answers to questions through a conscious and organized manner.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED