Convenience Store Cashier - Phenix City, Alabama, , United States

Job Overview: The cashier provides assistance to customers while performing key tasks that keep the store running smoothly. A successful cashier is friendly to his/her fellow employees and customers, stays busy maintaining and improving the store, and provides assistance to custo ...

Job description

Job Overview: The cashier provides assistance to customers while performing key tasks that keep the store running smoothly. A successful cashier is friendly to his/her fellow employees and customers, stays busy maintaining and improving the store, and provides assistance to customers and staff. The cashier is key to the company because he/she is face to face with customers and plays a key role in the customer's experience. The store clerk performs duties that are critical to daily operations of the store and overall efficiency.

Essential Abilities, Process Behaviors and People Behaviors

• Planning Ahead: Think forward, anticipate issues and plan for contingencies.
• Attention to Detail: Check the detail for getting quality right.
• Following Procedures: Ensure that procedures and policies are followed correctly.
• Teamwork and Communication : Consult with others and encourage proactive communication within and across work groups with diverse personalities tactfully, maturely and with flexibility .
• Showing Responsibility: Build awareness of responsibility to the bigger team beyond immediate work tasks and colleagues.
• Effective communication , written and verbal, with team members and management.
• High energy level , comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day­ to-day activities.
• Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner.
• Ability to be regular and predictable in attendance.
• Ability to work cooperatively with co-workers, managers, customers and the public.
• Good reasoning abilities and sound judgment.
• Ability to perform effectively and efficiently under sales and time pressures.
• Ability to follow directives and policies of the Company.
• Responsible to provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone , in written form, e-mail, or in person about how sales are proceeding.
• Realizes that he/she must establish and maintain interpersonal relationships and maintain them over a period of time in order to properly do the job function.
• Support departmental goals of safety, quality and cost reduction.
• Responsible for assisting customers during their time in our store in a way that makes them feel comfortable and makes them want to return.
• Responsible for charging customers for their purchases and giving back the correct amount of change.
• Responsible for preventing theft inside the store and at the gas pumps.
• Responsible for serving food to the customers.
• Responsible for keeping all areas of the store presentable and functioning at all times.
• Required to perform many janitorial duties that include and are not limited to cleaning the floors, cleaning the entire store, taking trash to the dumpster , and cleaning the parking lot and gas pump area.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the gas pumps.
• Responsible for organizing and cleaning coolers and freezers.
• Responsible for providing customers with a safe and sanitary environment.
• Responsible for keeping the fountain drink syrup in the fountain drink machines.
• Responsible for stocking product on the shelves.
• Responsible for checking identification and properly selling alcohol and tobacco products.
• Responsible for being conscientious of profitability in all aspects of their job.

Essential Technical Skills, Qualifications, Education And/Or Experience

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Must possess strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure high level of quality.
• Good working knowledge and ability to operate a variety of office equipment and systems.
• Organizational skills, computer skills
• Outgoing, helpful, responsible, productive personality

Driver's license Education and Experience

• High School Education
• Must be 21+

Essential Physical/Mental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to read, understand , and apply written and spoken directions; write; count accurately; use basic math (addition and subtraction.) .

Physical abilities include and are not limited to:

Handling large amounts of weight

Being able to stand for long periods of time

Being able to perform physically exhausting activities constantly Kneeling and reaching to stock shelves

Being able to work in extreme temperatures

Being able to count large amounts of cash and change

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is safety-sensitive. Large machinery, cutting tools, heavy objects, raw food, chemicals, and many other dangerous objects are part of the work environment. Employees must be in a constant state of alertness and possess the physical and mental ability to work in this environment safely. The safety of our employees and customers is our number one priority .