Jewel Osco - Deli Clerk (LINCOLN PARK)

Jewel Osco - Deli Clerk (LINCOLN PARK)

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Jewel-Osco is actively hiring for the following roles: Front End Service Clerk, Cashier, General Product Clerk, Night Crew Clerk, Floral Clerk, Bakery Clerk, Bakery Clerk, Deli Clerk, Meat Wrapper, Meat Apprentice, Barista, and more! These opportunities are available at various Jewel-Osco locations throughout the Chicagoland area.

ABOUT SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND'S FUTURE
Give yourself a competitive advantage by applying to this role through Skills for Chicagoland's Future (Skills). Skills is a nonprofit organization that partners with organizations across the Chicagoland area to place unemployed and underemployed job seekers into companies. These employers are committed to hiring talent through Skills.

Why utilize Skills for Chicagoland's Future as one of your job search sources?

Skills is free for job seekers. Any job seeker who Skills determines is a match for the role is interviewed by a member of Skills' Talent Acquisition Team and provided with additional insights into the role. As you move through the hiring process, Skills is your advocate with the hiring company.

Hiring Company: Jewel-Osco
Since 1899, Jewel-Osco has been committed to bringing quality service, exceptional stores and great products throughout Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.

At Jewel-Osco, your future starts now! Jewel-Osco offers a range of career opportunities in a dynamic retail environment. Jewel-Osco promotes from within whenever possible - many of the top management began as part-time or full-time store employees.

Purpose:

• Provides direct, prompt, efficient and friendly customer service
• Interacts with customers for their immediate selection of various fresh and pre-packaged meats, cheeses, salads, and hot foods from the Service Deli and Pre-Packaged Deli departments
• Slices or cuts, weighs, wraps, and prices products for sale
• Handles food in a safe manner and ensures the work area is always clean, sanitary, fresh, and full

Working Relationships:

• Accountable and reports to: Store Director, Asst. Store Director, Person-In-Charge, Chef's Kitchen Manager

Primary Job Functions:

• 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 associate's designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Genuinely thanks each customer and invites them back.
• Assists customers by: (examples include)
  • Escorting them to the products they're looking for
  • Securing products that are out of reach
  • Loading or unloading heavy items
  • Making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests
  • Performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience
  • 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, weighs, dates, wraps, and prices/labels all products
  • Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment
  • Reviews customer 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 products for freshness, rotating products on display for sale and in reserve areas
  • Monitors temperatures of all hot and cold units for proper holding procedures
  • Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signage procedures, and meeting customer demands
  • Ensures that adequate supply is ready and on hand and follows a production list
  • Prepares, finishes, and replenishes product in the Service Deli and Pre-Pack Department as necessary
  • Checks in product, puts product away, and may review invoices
  • Cleans all department utensils, equipment, merchandising tables and cases, food preparation surfaces, floors, doors, walls and storage areas according to sanitation schedule and standards
  • Removes trash in a timely manner
  • Disassembles and flattens packing boxes and loads disassembled boxes into the baler
  • Ensures all areas of the department are organized according to '5S' standards
  • Completes all daily record keeping and documentation required by Company, Store Director or Chef's Kitchen Manager
  • Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress
  • Adheres to all company policies, procedures, Safety and Sanitation regulations, and individual store guidelines
  • Reports to work when scheduled and on time
  • Responsible for proper inventory control through pricing, labeling, stocking, dating, and maintaining EOE accuracy
  • Ensures that all food is handled in accordance with local health department regulations
  • Protects associates and customers by removing potential hazards from the sales floor in a timely manner

Requirements:

• Must best at least 18 years old
• Valid state ID or driver's license required, AND social security card (no paper copies allowed)
• Must be able to solve arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals and percentages
• Must have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with multiple variables as they are presented
• Must be able to understand and follow written, verbal or demonstrated instructions; write indentifying information; 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 cooler or freezer
• Must be able to participate in the preparation of salads, sandwiches, rotisserie chicken, fried chicken, fried fish, et.
• Must be able to safely operate a slicer, rotisserie oven and fryer
• Must be able to work shifts varying in length and times, including nights, weekends and holidays

Location:

• 2550 N. Clybourn Ave., Chicago, IL 60614

Compensation and Benefits:

• $16.50/hr - $17.50/hr
• Union Position
• Eligible to enroll in benefits on 91st day of employment following 90-day probationary period