Garden Center Clerk

Company Name:Fred Meyer
Position Type:Employee
FLSA Status:Non-exempt
Minimum Pay Range:15.99
Maximum Pay Range:19.15

Position Summary:

Provide customer service, stock merchandise, perform early removal breakdown, process sales, and maintain fixtures, displays, and signing. Role model anddemonstrate the Company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of self and others.

Fred Meyer also requires that all associates perform all tasks in a safe manner consistent with corporate policies and state and federal laws.

Essential Job Functions:

• Model "Customer 1st" behavior; deliver and encourage other associates to deliver excellent customer service
• Maintain compliance with divisional signing, pricing, recovery, ticketing, shrink control guidelines, and merchandising standards
• Receive/process freight
• Perform early removal breakdown and markdown procedures
• Verify ads and promotions are set to standard
• Process defective and returned merchandise
• Conduct stock counts
• Build ends and displays
• Maintain compliance with planograms and composites
• Process product deletions
• Verify accuracy of price changes
• Maintain cleanliness of work area
• Answer telephones
• Promote and follow Company initiatives
• Sell products to customers; perform cashier functions
• Respond to verbal customer comments/complaints
• Hardlines:

o Order and maintain the Garden Center hardlines merchandise and power equipment; Build and maintain vendor relationships; Coordinate/organizemerchandising of the section; Maintain awareness of overstock/understock conditions

• Indoor Plants:

o Maintain indoor live plant merchandise; Write and receive orders for indoor plants and cut flowers; Stock and maintain merchandise displays: water,groom, prune, and rotate; Perform housekeeping functions to maintain shopability and customer safety; Plan and prepare merchandising for holidays andseasonals; Provide information and sell indoor plants and products

• Outdoor Nursery:

o Order merchandise and plant material; Maintain outdoor live merchandise and yard; Write and receive orders for outdoor live goods; Stock and maintainmerchandise displays: water, groom, prune, and rotate; Perform housekeeping functions for outdoor nursery area to maintain shopability and customer safety;Maintain outdoor live goods composite book; Assemble yard tools; Provide information and sell outdoor garden products; Prepare yard for seasonal yard sets

• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) plus a minimum of six months Fred Meyer experience and/or six months retail floral/garden center experience; or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Minimum 18 years of age/19 years in Idaho
• Ability to pass drug test
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work weekends on a regular basis; overtime as needed
• Maintain confidentiality
• Accuracy/attention to detail
• Ability to organize/prioritize tasks/projects
• Familiarity with industry/technical terms/processes
• Ability to work within set time frames and fixed deadlines
• Fred Meyer lift truck certification/license

Desired Previous Job Experience:

• Knowledge of Fred Meyer policies, procedures, and organizational structure
• Proficiency with current Company email and Report Management and Distribution System (RMDS)
• Related retail experience: plant, floral, garden tool, fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide knowledge
• Master Gardner's Certificate

The final rate of pay is determined at store level based on prior equivalent work experience.

To support and reward our hardworking and friendly associates, we offer much more than just a paycheck. We strive to feed your future by offering the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for success at work and in life. Our associates receive a full plate of benefits that promote their physical, emotional and financial well-being, including access to competitive health care and retirement benefits, paid time off, mental health resources, associate discounts and opportunities to learn, grow and advance. Our associates also get to help us make a difference in our communities through our Zero Hunger | Zero Waste and Framework for Action: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plans. Visit the thekrogerco.com to learn more about our work in the communities we serve and how our associates help us be a good neighbor.

Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates.

Health & Well-being Benefits:

• Health care benefits
• Paid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and parental leave
• Mental and emotional support resources through our Employee Assistance Program

Financial Benefits:

• Participation in a 401(k) plan and/or participation in a Taft-Hartley pension fund, subject to certain eligibility requirements
• Group term life insurance eligible, depending on varying criteria by location and subject to certain eligibility requirements
• Associate discounts

Growth and Development Benefits:

• Tuition assistance, college scholarships and educational leave of absence, depending on varying criteria by location and subject to certain eligibility requirements
• Robust internal training and development resources to grow your career

We want the best for associates and our customers, and together, we strive to create a welcoming and engaging environment where you’ll love to work. If you are interested in becoming a valued member of our team, apply now. We look forward to getting to know you!

Education Level: None
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Position Type: Part-Time
Shift(s): Day; Evening
Regions: West

States: Washington
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