grocery clerk

Education:

No degree, certificate or diploma.

Work site environment:

• Air conditioned.
• Cold/refrigerated.
• Dusty.
• Outdoors.

Work setting:

Supermarket/grocery store.

Tasks:

• Bag, box or parcel purchases for customers, for shipment or delivery.
• Carry customer's purchases to parking lot and pack orders in customers' vehicles.
• Obtain articles for customers from shelf or stockroom.
• Direct customers to location of articles sought.
• Unpack products received by store and count, weigh or sort items.
• Record incoming stock.
• Stock shelves and display areas.
• Keep stock clean and in order.
• Perform general cleaning duties (i.e. sweeping, mopping floors).
• Operate cash register.
• Provide customer service.

Transportation/travel information:

Public transportation is available.

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

• Fast-paced environment.
• Work under pressure.
• Repetitive tasks.
• Handling heavy loads.
• Physically demanding.
• Attention to detail.
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
• Standing for extended periods.
• Walking.
• Bending, crouching, kneeling.

Weight handling:

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).

Personal suitability:

• Client focus.
• Flexibility.
• Organized.
• Reliability.
• Team player.

Employment terms options:

• Evening.
• Shift.
• Flexible hours.
• Morning.
• Night.

Experience:

No experience (will train).

Employment terms options:

• Day.
• Weekend.
• Overtime available.

Support for persons with disabilities:

• Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.).
• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities.
• Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities .

Support for newcomers and refugees:

• Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.).
• Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) .
• Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition.

Support for youths:

• Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth.
• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.

Support for Veterans:

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans .

Support for Indigenous people:

Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers .

Support for mature workers:

• Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination .
• Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers .
• Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.) .

Supports for visible minorities:

• Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).
• Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.