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About the role • This position requires interacting in a polite and helpful manner with customers, restocking displays and ensuring signage is accurate and clear, maintaining a neat and clean work environment, and efficiently and accurately running a cash register to complete transactions.  This is a seasonal position and could entail working either at our Market or at our Pick-Your-Own operation on our Main Farm. What you'll do • Customer Service: • Provide excellent customer service and be the “face” of Phillips Farms. • Engage with customers, smile, and make eye contact.   Answer their questions thoughtfully and thoroughly.  Be friendly and polite. • Notify a supervisor of any customer complaints or concerns. • Cashier: • Ring up customer purchases, weigh produce, run the cash register, give correct change, and accurately process credit card transactions. • Count the money in the register drawer precisely at the beginning and end of the shift and recap all sales/transactions accurately. • Be up-to-date on product changes including price, sizes, and types • Correctly identify fruits, vegetables, and plants when entering items into the system during a transaction • Restocking/Product Display: • Assist with set up and break down of the produce display as directed. • Sort through displayed produce and assist with restocking throughout the day; products on display should always be in great condition, bountiful and consolidated. • Check to make sure every product has a clearly labeled price sign. • Water plants and hanging baskets as directed.   Remove dead leaves and keep all plants healthy-looking and ready for customer purchase.  Maintain a beautiful display. • Organization/Cleanliness: • Keep the farm market/PYO shed clean, swept, organized and well-stocked at all times. • Pick up garbage and debris in the parking area and grass area.  Keep things neat and uncluttered inside and outside. • Gather shopping carts and wagons, fill hand-washing stations, maintain bathroom cleanliness, remove garbage and recycle boxes • MISC: • Closely follow guidelines to monitor for theft • Maintain regular communication with your supervisor and advise of any out-of-the-ordinary situations or issues that come up during your shift; ask questions for clarification of things you don’t know or don’t understand • Perform new responsibilities and duties as needed in addition to those described in the Daily Procedures Manual, and as assigned by a supervisor • Complete daily checklists for opening, closing, and completing tasks throughout your shift • Dress and groom according to company policy • Remain in compliance with company shift coverage policy • Communicate well and work cooperatively with your coworkers and supervisors Qualifications • Minimum age 16 • Available to consistently work weekends and all holidays • Able to lift and carry farm crates and produce boxes/bags (up to 25 lbs) • Able to stand for long hours at a time • Able to work outdoors and in all weather conditions • Punctuality/Reliability:  must arrive on time at the correct location and be ready to work each day • Strong work ethic:  must be a self-starter, have a positive attitude, be able to work independently, be able to identify tasks to complete in-between customers, and be eager to learn • Must be flexible to perform different tasks and adapt to a constantly changing work environment About Phillips Farms LLC Phillips Farms is a 300 acre, family-operated farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  We produce a wide range of fruits and vegetables.  We also grow a variety of ornamental plants in our greenhouses.  During the summer months, we invite customers onto our farm to pick their own fruit and enjoy a day outside with their families.