Grocery Clerk

At Fresh Market Foods, we don’t just stock shelves — we keep the community running! We’re on the lookout for a reliable and energetic Grocery Clerk to join our team. If you’ve got a passion for helping people, love keeping things organized, and don’t mind breaking a sweat to keep the store looking its best, this role is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Serve customers and address their inquiries or direct them to appropriate personnel, assist in packing groceries during busy periods, and perform customer carry-outs when requested.
• Stock shelves with dry goods, dairy, and cooler items, ensuring proper rotation.
• Maintain department cleanliness and organization, including dusting, shelf cleaning, and spill cleanup, while conducting facing of shelves to enhance product aesthetics and check expiry dates.
• Perform daily floor checks and maintain sweep logbooks, conduct box runs to bring boxes from the back room to the front end, and fill out transfer sheets for products used from other departments.
• Break down pallets of stock, organize items onto carts, and assist the receiver by strapping into the cage and retrieving groceries from the back warehouse rack for shelf restocking.
• Unlock doors, maintain cleanliness of front entrance windows, and bring out garbage bins.
• Bring in carts and move them to the designated area, conduct a customer count and report to the manager, and check washrooms, ensure the van is locked, and plug in the cart machine.

Qualifications and Skills: 

• High school education preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, good communication and interpersonal abilities,
• Knowledge of health and safety guidelines, availability to work flexible hours
• forklift/power jack training and Smart Serve certification are assets.

Terms of Employment: Permanent Full-time (40 hours/week)

Positions: 2

Wage/Salary: Starting at $17.60 – $19.00 per/hour (depending on experience)

Benefits: After completing the 3-month probationary period, employees are enrolled in our Group Benefits which include Medical & Dental Benefits, Long Term Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Maple Program and access to our staff only gym. Additionally, employees receive a 10% discount at Fresh Market Foods and a 20% Discount at Your Dollar Store with More. After 1 year of employment, employees are eligible to enroll in our Group RRSP programs.

Location of Work: 79 Queen Street; Sioux Lookout, ON   P8T 1A1

Language of Work: English, French (an asset but not a requirement)

Transportation: Fresh Market Foods will cover a one-time round-trip travel cost for the successful candidate to our location and back to their permanent residence at the end of the work period. This does not include the cost for a full trailer move (household goods, trailers, or large personal belongings etc).

Closing Date: open until filled

Apply with Resume to:

Liz Ward, Human Resources Manager

Email: jobs@freshmarketfoods.ca

Fresh Market Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. Reasonable accommodations will be provided during the hiring process.