Bakery/Deli Closing Clerk

Harps Food Stores • Halls, TN

8d

About The Position

The Bakery/Deli Closing Clerk supports bakery and deli department operations and helps supervise the store while providing positive, attentive customer service. The role contributes to department readiness, staffing, price maintenance, policy compliance, inventory preparation, financial goals, cleanliness, and safe equipment use. It also supports replenishment and inventory activities, including ordering, receiving, invoicing, back stock, returns, damages, and reworks.

The clerk maintains merchandising and sales-floor standards through stocking, rotation, signing, displays, sampling, and department zoning. The role also assists with fresh food preparation and production, food safety, service counters, and applicable temperature standards. Clerks are expected to solve problems thoughtfully, maintain quality and safety, build respectful relationships, act with integrity and professionalism, and contribute to a cooperative team environment. The position requires availability for a flexible schedule that may include evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• No previous work experience is required.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Ability to adapt to different situations and respond flexibly to shifting priorities and rapid change.
• Ability to interpret, understand, and follow instructions.
• Ability to move, lift, carry, and place merchandise and supplies weighing 25 pounds or less without assistance.
• Frequently reach overhead and below the knees and perform pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, crouching, and twisting, with or without bearing weight.
• Occasionally squat, kneel, and climb.
• Perform continuous repetitive hand and arm motions, such as grasping, gripping, and turning.
• Stand and/or walk continuously throughout the shift.
• Visually locate merchandise and other objects and verify information, often in small print.
• May be exposed to all weather conditions and indoor variations in heat, cold, dust, and humidity.
• May be exposed to cleaning solvents or other chemicals, as well as latex, eggs, nuts, soy, and wheat.
• Employment may be contingent upon completion and evaluation of a PEP survey, drug screen, employment reference check, and criminal background check.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support bakery and deli department readiness, staffing, supervision, price maintenance, policies and procedures, inventory preparation, financial goals, cleanliness, and safe equipment use.
• Assist with ordering, replenishment, receiving, invoicing and accounting, back stock, reclamation and returns, damages and reworks, supply use, and inventory preparation.
• Maintain merchandising and sales-floor standards, including stocking, rotation, signing, displays, sampling, and department zoning.
• Support fresh food preparation and production while maintaining food-safety standards, production requirements, temperature standards, and service counters.
• Define issues and use critical thinking and logic to find answers and solve problems.
• Produce and promote high-quality products and services while following procedures that protect personal and workplace safety.
• Provide customer service and hospitality, actively look for ways to help customers, and work to exceed customer expectations.
• Build respectful relationships, support teamwork, and complete assigned duties in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and timely attendance, follow the dress code, and help ensure a safe work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed