Part-Time Deli Clerk: Clinton, MD

About the role

The Deli/Bakery Clerk job involves providing prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service in the deli and bakery departments. Responsibilities include handling food safely, ensuring the work area is clean and neat, and supporting general deli/bakery service when needed.

Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern, and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee's designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Answers the department telephone promptly when called upon, and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call.
• Takes customer orders at the deli counter, slices product for customer service, weighs, dates, prices, labels, and wraps all product.
• Reviews orders for the day and processes accordingly.
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Reviews the status and appearance of the food for freshness. Monitors temperatures of all hot and cold units for proper holding procedures.
• Anticipates product needs for the department on a daily basis. Prepares, finishes, and replenishes product as necessary. Checks in product, puts product away, and may review invoices.
• Clean all equipment in the Deli/Bakery department on a daily basis. Responsible for proper inventory control (pricing, stocking, ordering).
• Ensures that all food is handled in accordance with local health department regulations. Performs other job-related duties and special projects as required.

Requirements

• Must be able to solve arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Must be able to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions, request supplies orally or in writing.
• Visual requirements include clarity of vision at a distance of more than 20 inches and less than 20 feet, color vision, depth perception, and field of vision.
• Must have the ability to handle refrigerated and frozen levels of temperature when retrieving product from freezer.
• Must be able to safely operate a slicer and fryer for the production of sliced meats and cheeses and fried foods.
• Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in a similar role preferred.

Skills

• Customer service skills
• Food safety knowledge
• Basic arithmetic skills
• Ability to operate kitchen equipment

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Sick Time
• paid holidays and parental leave
• 401K Program
• medical, dental, vision, life, and accidental death/dismemberment insurance
• short-term and long-term disability insurance program
• Flexible Spending Account and/or Health Savings Account

Pay

UNFI anticipates paying the above-referenced pay rate (or within the above-referenced pay range) for this position. Actual Pay, where applicable, will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, training, and any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Schedule

Shifts vary in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays.