Scanning Clerk

About the role

The Scanning Clerk is responsible for maintaining high standards of pricing integrity throughout the entire store. They ensure all pricing is accurate and understandable to customers, and share responsibility for ensuring price scanners and printers are operational and scanning correctly with Store Managers/Assistant Store Managers. The role involves maintaining an accurate scanning price file for all items, assisting with proper product rotation, and ensuring item placement/removal follows all state pricing laws, company guidelines, processes, procedures, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain weekly Maintenance Report by performing audits, including:
  • New Items – ensuring new items on the shelf have the proper price tag displayed.
  • Price Changes (Ups/Downs and New Lower Prices) – following procedure to ensure proper pricing on items.
  • Discontinued Product – properly identify on the shelf what items are flagged to be discontinued.
  • Deleted Product – remove deleted items from the shelf in all departments.
• Perform weekly Ad Checks ensuring all items in the weekly flyer scan as advertised, are properly displayed, have correct signage, and scan correctly.
• Ensure daily that all price scanners and printers in the store are operational.
• Separate, sort, and distribute weekly shelf tags to appropriate departments.
• Perform a weekly Aisle Scan ensuring all merchandise is properly tagged and scanning correctly.
• Ensure that store signage standards are maintained.
• Check date codes, ensuring proper rotation per company guidelines.
• Remove and scan out any out-of-code product on the shelf.
• Notify the Store Manager or Assistant Store Manager of potential shrink problems (damaged or missing merchandise), out-of-stock situations, potential security problems, and customer requests/complaints.
• Notify Merchandising Systems Department personnel of any pricing or item issues found utilizing appropriate forms.
• Ensure all store personnel inform the Scanning Clerk of pricing problems, tag issues, or item data issues.
• Scan items in need of replacement tags and create/print tag batches using the sign system, hanging all replacement tags.
• Create signage when needed.
• File and maintain copies of logs, reports, and forms at the store level for documented timeframes.
• Ensure all shelves and displays are blocked and straightened after rotating a section.
• Clean shelves when needed.
• Attend meetings when needed.
• Other duties as assigned by the Store Manager, Assistant Store Manager, or the Company.
• Practice the “Golden Rule” and work with all associates as a team in a Respectful, Supportive, and Team-Oriented (RSTO) manner.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Flexibility to work up to eight (8) hour days; Monday through Friday, with weekends if scheduled.
• Ability to operate computers and hand-held scanning machines.
• Extremely detail-oriented; accuracy and attention to detail are imperative.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English proficiently.
• Ability to understand and follow English directions.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with people of various backgrounds, personality traits, and levels of authority to accomplish department and company goals.
• Successful completion of pre-employment/promotion drug screen and criminal background check (timeline must fall within company guidelines).

Skills

• Experience working with handhelds and front-end registers.
• Ability to identify and correct problems.
• Strong sense of urgency.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Standing: Continuously (67-100%) on tile/concrete surfaces.
• Walking: Continuously (67-100%) on tile/concrete surfaces.
• Carrying: Frequently (34-66%) up to 40 lbs.
• Pushing: Frequently (34-66%) up to 200 lbs.
• Lifting: Frequently (34-66%) up to 40 lbs.
• Pulling: Occasionally (1-33%) up to 200 lbs.
• Reaching: Continuously (67-100%) at waist/overhead level.
• Climbing: Occasionally (1-33%) up to 10 ft.
• Sitting: Occasionally (1-33%).
• Bending: Occasionally (1-33%).
• Balancing: Frequently (34-66%).
• Stooping: Continuously (67-100%).
• Kneeling: Frequently (34-66%).
• Crouching: Frequently (34-66%).
• Handling: Continuously (67-100%).
• Fingering: Continuously (67-100%).
• Feeling: Continuously (67-100%).
• Crawling: Occasionally (1-33%).
• Talking: Continuously (67-100%).
• Seeing: Continuously (67-100%).
• Hearing: Continuously (67-100%).
• Smelling: Occasionally (1-33%).

Work Conditions

• Environment: Inside, outside, cold, heat, and wet/humidity.
• Safety Risk Factors:
  • Loud noise: Occasionally (1-33%).
  • Twisting of back and neck: Frequently (34-66%).
  • Slippery floor surface: Occasionally (1-33%).
  • Cluttered floor surface: Occasionally (1-33%).
• Machines, tools, and equipment used: Computers, front-end terminals, scanning system, price scanners and printers, scales, hand-held machines, copy machines, and printers.

Schedule

• Varied shifts including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Pay

The hiring range for this position is $15.40 - $20.10 per hour. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to education, experience, qualifications, and internal equity.