Deli Clerk

Deli Clerk

The Deli Clerk is responsible for preparing, packaging, displaying, and serving ready-to-eat foods while maintaining Company food-safety, sanitation, temperature-control, product-quality, and customer-service standards. This role includes preparing hot foods and other assigned Deli products, stocking and rotating merchandise, maintaining clean and organized food-preparation areas, and providing prompt and courteous customer service. Employees must obtain and maintain a required food worker/food-handler card.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Prepare hot foods and other assigned Deli products according to Company procedures and production needs.
• Package, weigh, label, stock, rotate, and display products according to Company standards and applicable food-safety requirements.
• Operate authorized Deli equipment, including ovens, dishwashers, slicers, scales, and related equipment, after completing required training.
• Monitor product temperatures, rotation, expiration dates, freshness, and quality and take required corrective action or notify department leadership.
• Clean and sanitize equipment, work surfaces, floors, pans, utensils, counters, and other food-contact or preparation areas.
• Stage ingredients and supplies and maintain organized preparation, storage, cooler, and display areas.
• Provide prompt and courteous customer service, including assisting with special orders and routine customer requests.
• Follow written and verbal instructions and established food-safety, sanitation, and operating procedures.
• Maintain an appropriate work pace while completing assigned tasks accurately and efficiently.
• Work cooperatively with team members and communicate concerns or operational issues to department leadership.
• Maintain organization, attention to detail, and a clean and safe work area.
• Adapt to changing priorities and perform assigned work with appropriate independence.
• Obtain and maintain a required food worker/food-handler card.
• Assist with other store functions as assigned, consistent with position responsibilities and qualifications.

Experience/Education:

• A valid food worker/food-handler card is required. Applicants who do not already have one must obtain it as a condition of employment.
• A High School Diploma or GED is preferred.
• Previous food preparation, Deli, restaurant, grocery, or related experience is preferred.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions and established food-safety and sanitation procedures.
• Ability to safely operate authorized food-preparation equipment after required training.
• Ability to provide courteous customer service and work effectively as part of a team.

Company Description:

Three Bears Alaska is a family-owned chain of Alaskan grocery stores with so much more. We are committed to providing customers with quality goods and services at the lowest possible price. We strive to meet the needs of our customers by offering a diverse range of products and exceptional customer service. With multiple locations throughout Alaska, Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is dedicated to serving the local community and creating a positive shopping experience.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Colonial Life Elective Benefits
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Holiday Pay
• Automatic raise of $1.00/hr every 1,040 hours worked Auto raises will be provided based on straight-time hours worked until top of pay scale is reached.

Pay Range:

Starting at $17.00/hr (DOE)

• Part-time
• Schedule may include early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays based on department needs.
• Weekends are required.

Office Location and Travel:

• LOCATION: In person
• Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Working Environment:

Work is performed primarily in Deli food-preparation, cooler/freezer, dishwashing, storage, and sales-floor areas. Working conditions may include exposure to oven and display-case heat, wet or humid dishwashing conditions, refrigerated and freezer temperatures, sharp equipment, cleaning and sanitizing chemicals, and other conditions typical of grocery food-service operations.

Physical requirements include frequently walking, standing, bending, and squatting, with occasional climbing and reaching above shoulder level. Employees must be able to continuously reach at or below shoulder level and frequently grasp, push, pull, and perform repetitive hand motions while preparing, packaging, stocking, and handling products.

Frequently lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifting and carrying items weighing up to 75 pounds may be required. Employees must be able to read pallet tags, signs, product labels, product information, and department documentation; safely navigate preparation, storage, cooler/freezer, and sales-floor areas; and hear and communicate with customers and team members while recognizing forklift beepers and other audible warnings.

Employees must also be able to safely use a manual pallet jack and spot for forklift operations after completing required training.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Reasonable Accommodation:

Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration without regard to protected status under applicable law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

This job description is intended to provide basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve.