Part Time Seafood Clerk

About the role

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.

Conveys customer special orders to appropriate personnel.

Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.

Reviews the status and appearance of department merchandise for freshness.

Ensures appropriate stocking of fresh and smoked meat/pork/poultry cases, coolers and freezers by rotating and replenishing product.

Checks invoices against delivered product. Weighs, dates, labels and wraps fresh meat.

Reports out-of-stock products to appropriate personnel.

Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.

Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Ensures that all food is handled in accordance with local health department regulations.

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.
• Conveys customer special orders to appropriate personnel.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Reviews the status and appearance of department merchandise for freshness.
• Ensures appropriate stocking of fresh and smoked meat/pork/poultry cases, coolers and freezers by rotating and replenishing product.
• Checks invoices against delivered product. Weighs, dates, labels and wraps fresh meat.
• Reports out-of-stock products to appropriate personnel.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.
• Ensures that all food is handled in accordance with local health department regulations.

Requirements

• The ability to work for prolonged periods of time in refrigerated and frozen levels of temperatures.
• The ability to work in an environment with continuous high noise levels.
• Must have the ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions.
• Ability to do simple addition and subtraction, copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Ability to program weighing scales.
• Ability to identify different types of seafood.
• Ability to lift 80 pounds from floor to a table 48 inches in height.
• Ability to stock, rotate and clean display cases.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color), and field of vision.
• Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in a retail setting preferred.
• Knowledge of and ability to differentiate various types of seafood.
• Ability to order seafood and set seafood display case.

Skills

• The ability to work for prolonged periods of time in refrigerated and frozen levels of temperatures.
• The ability to work in an environment with continuous high noise levels.
• Must have the ability to carry out detailed written or verbal instructions.
• Ability to do simple addition and subtraction, copying figures, counting, and recording.
• Ability to program weighing scales.
• Ability to identify different types of seafood.
• Ability to lift 80 pounds from floor to a table 48 inches in height.
• Ability to stock, rotate and clean display cases.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color), and field of vision.
• Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Benefits

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Candidates hired into this position will also be eligible to participate in the following benefits programs:

• 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;

Subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs, and subject to any requirements under applicable collective bargaining agreements.

UNFI’s compensation, benefits, and paid time off policies are subject to change in the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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.

This job posting should not be construed as an offer of employment with certain terms, nor should it be construed as a guaranteed minimum. Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.