Location: Sequim,WA, USA
Produce Clerk, Sunny Farms Country Store -- Sequim, WAIn search of an enthusiastic, customer-focused and friendly clerk to join our team to help ensure our produce area is well-stocked, clean and running efficiently. If you do not already know your Cosmic Crisp from Ambrosia and EverCrisp apples, or how to trim broccoli or even spell rutabaga your confidence will grow with time -- plus the products are labeled. If you already know these things and have relevant experience, we can use you too.Some may say this is an opportunity to unleash your artistic abilities, presenting a collage of fresh, crisp, bright fruits but honestly, this is a fast-paced, physically demanding position -- stocking watermelons and trimming corn is hard work. And then we get into pumpkin season...Responsibilities:Trim, wash, sort, build and maintain fresh fruit and vegetable displays.Rotate product on displays to ensure quality, freshness, and eye appeal.Help ensure compliance with all food safety and sanitation requirements throughout your daily work.Assist with cleaning and sanitizing food preparation areas, tools, and equipment.Escort customers to the appropriate aisle or shelve to assist with purchasing decisions.Provide excellent customer service.Help ensure the store is clean, safe, and in order.Help ensure that products are accurately labeled.Occasionally help cashiers with bagging.Help breakdown incoming freight.Requirements:Previous grocery/retail experience helpful.Customer service-oriented.Ability to interact with customers of diverse backgrounds in a positive manner.Team player -- work well with others.Detail-oriented.Good communication and people skills.Ability to work a variety of shifts including nights & weekends.*Physical Demands & Safety Expectations. * Most positions at Sunny Farms require physical effort to varying degrees. This may include using personal protective equipment when and where required, understanding ergonomic safety, chemical hazards, and safe lifting techniques. No staff may pose a direct threat to the health and safety of self or others by willfully engaging in unsafe behaviors.The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by you to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, you are regularly required to stand for prolonged periods of time, walk, use hands, fingers, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste, smell, talk, and hear.You must continuously lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 45 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.*Work Environment. * The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those you may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.While performing the duties of this position, the associate is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in