Outpost Clerk

Role Description

Outpost Clerks stock, straighten, and clean department and provide prompt and courteous service. This role includes performing background checks on gun sales in accordance with company guidelines and Federal/State laws and regulations and logging, inventorying, transferring, selling, and recording firearms according to company policy, federal, and state laws and regulations.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Follows merchandising standards and practices.
• Aligns product, collects and returns stray items, stocks to maintain high product levels.
• Rotates merchandise.
• Checks for accurate signage.
• Hangs and replaces computer generated product signs.
• Uses box knife to cut boxes for display/accessibility of product and to cut twine or shrink-wrap from pallet.
• Stocks opened cases on shelves.
• Uses hand-held scanning gun or keys item numbers when necessary.
• Transfers or ensures transfer of each item as number is scanned.
• Monitors all merchandise passing through register line, promoting accurate merchandise inventory.
• Requests supervisor verification for high-ticket items.
• Assists with transferring merchandise in carts and packaging orders, following all safety and security procedures.
• Receives accurate payment for goods, makes change, processes checks, EBT, credit and debit charges according to proper departmental procedures for paperwork and performance of duties.
• Counts register at sign on, orders change, makes witnessed drops of excess funds to vault, orders cash increases, and counts register at shift end to maintain accurate register funds.
• Performs related tasks, set-up and closing duties for department, such as putting returned or moved product back, collecting paperwork, stocking register, cleaning area, and retrieving carts.
• Moves and positions pallets of merchandise using manual pallet jack.
• Stacks product from partial pallets onto full pallets.
• Communicates with supervisors and managers to determine merchandising plan and priorities.
• Writes list of products to be brought from steel, by forklift driver, for stocking.
• Provides prompt and courteous customer service.
• Answers phones, directs customers to product, and assists customers with product information.
• Cleans department by sweeping, mopping, spraying, wiping, and dusting.
• Stocks supplies, empties trash, and operates trash compactor and cardboard baler.
• Operate cash register, hand-held/tabletop scanners, conveyor belt, carts, flatbeds, trash compactor, cardboard baler, electronic order gun.
• Assists in other departments of the store as necessary.
• Performs other functions as necessary or assigned.

Experience/Education:

• A High School Diploma or GED is preferred.
• Customer service skills preferred.