Liquor Store Clerk 2-Heacock Road, Yardley

About the role

As a Liquor Store Clerk 2 at Fine Wine & Good Spirits Store #0907, you will serve as a shift lead, guiding a team of clerks and collaborating with the management team. Responsibilities include managing daily store operations such as engaging with customers, processing sales, unloading shipments, stocking shelves, building displays, and maintaining store cleanliness. You will oversee and train lower-level clerks, ensure compliance with store procedures and policies, and assist with customer service, cash management, and inventory reporting for the shift.

Responsibilities

• Lead a shift effectively, ensuring smooth store operations and providing guidance to lower-level clerks.
• Provide top-notch customer service, helping shoppers find what they need.
• Manage sales transactions with a computerized cash register.
• Unload shipments, stock shelves, and assemble product displays.
• Maintain store cleanliness and ensure a positive shopping environment.
• Provide on-the-job training to less experienced staff, ensuring they understand store procedures and policies.
• Complete shift reports, including accounting and inventory management, and address cash management issues.
• Resolve customer service and product-related concerns promptly.
• Work independently while leading and guiding other clerks.
• Safely lift products – occasionally overhead or from a squatting position from the floor – weighing 30 to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 60 pounds, ensuring both personal safety and product protection.
• Stand for extended periods of time.
• Keep the store clean and organized.
• Utilize scanners, box cutters, dollies, carts, hand trucks, and pallet jacks.
• Follow all legal guidelines to ensure alcohol is sold only to customers who are legally permitted to buy it.
• Work in a friendly, team-oriented environment where every day brings new challenges and rewards.
• Must be willing to travel as needed.

Qualifications

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• Six months as a Liquor Store Clerk 1 or Intermittent Liquor Store Clerk (commonwealth titles); or
• Six months of retail sales work.

Note: Time held in a part-time position will be pro-rated. 975 hours will be equivalent to six months of qualified experience, including time served as a part-time Intermittent Liquor Store Clerk.

Other Requirements:

• Must meet the PA residency requirement (see Residency Guidelines for details).
• Must be able to perform essential job functions.

Legal Requirements:

• Must pass a background investigation.
• An applicant with a felony conviction within the last ten years of their prospective date of employment is not permitted to work for the PLCB, per section 210(c) of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code. Other criminal convictions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Employment Conditions:

• This position is subject to the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding.
• Must be eligible for selection in accordance with merit system employment regulations.

Recruitment Methods (applicants must meet one):

• Promotion Without Exam
• Reassignment (only current civil service employees in the same agency who hold the same or similar job title, with the same maximum salary, within the same occupational group or where there is a logical career movement)
• Voluntary Demotion
• Reinstatement (former civil service employees may only be reinstated to the job title from which they resigned; current civil service employees are not eligible through reinstatement)

Promotion Without Examination (PWOE) Class Restrictions:

• Must have or have held regular civil service status in one of the following classifications: Intermittent Liquor Store Clerk, Liquor Store Clerk 1.
• Employees who previously held regular civil service status in the job title of the position being filled are also eligible.
• Meritorious service defined as: (a) absence of any discipline above the level of written reprimand during the 12 months preceding the closing date of the posting, and (b) the last regular or probationary performance evaluation showing an overall rating of satisfactory or higher.
• Applicants must have a minimum of one year in the next lower class(es) by the posting closing date with no break in service.

Reassignment Meritorious Service: Same definition as PWOE meritorious service.

Benefits

• Free, secure, onsite parking.

Schedule

• Full-time employment.
• Work hours will vary, totaling 75 hours biweekly.
• No telework option.

Pay

In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable. Further communication regarding this position will be sent via email.