Retail Shop Manager, on the doorstep of Acadia National Park!
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Job Starts:Apr 22, 2024
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Current Job dates:
Currently recruiting for jobs that start between April 1st, 2024 and November 7th, 2024.
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The ideal candidate has retail management experience, is self motivated and desires to learn and grow everyday. We’re looking for the right individual to join the management team to help continue providing outstanding hospitality to visitors of this area. There is a good team in place to work beside help learn the position hopefully for many seasons to come.
The Retail Shop Manager is responsible for all the day to day activity of the shop. Scheduling and working with a team toward the common goal of doing the best that we can for the people we’re working with and the people who visit our shops. Training and working with staff to become a team with everyone finding best fit and improving upon all the daily tasks. Merchandising and updating displays is a good creative outlet that helps a shop really stand out. This position is hands on requiring working on the point of sale, lifting and moving bins of merchandise and keeping cash and transactions secure.
Our season typically runs from May through October, though there is preparation to be done before the season and ramping down once the weather turns chilly. Our shops are open from 8:00am to 11:00pm and a variety of shifts seems to work best and give the best understanding of the shop’s needs. We have apartment housing available downtown Bar Harbor.
Thank you for considering this position and I hope you choose to explore this opportunity.
Apartment Housing is available.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From $21.00 to $24.00 per hour.
Benefits:
- Profit Share
- Health Insurance
- 401k
- Employee discount
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Duties include cashiering, assisting with purchases, unloading and stocking merchandise, folding clothing, regularly scheduled cleaning duties including floor cleaning, and park visitor orientation. Must be able to lift 20 lbs. up to 20 times a day. Shifts may require standing for more than 4 hours at a time. All shop positions include weekend, evening, and holiday work. Shops are open as early as 8:00 AM and as late as 11:00 PM.
($16.00/hr plus $1.00 to $1.50/hr upon completing your work agreement)
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Working in the Distribution Center Clerk has 3 main aspects. The receiving process of merchandise which involves verifying, counting and tagging of items that arrive. Picking Merchandise using orders generated for each shop to replenish their stock. The final aspect involves Delivering the merchandise to the shops via delivery van (Ram ProMaster 4500). The ideal candidate is able to perform all 3 aspects of the position but we're also looking for individuals who can do parts of this position as well.
This position requires lots of lifting and moving of boxes of 40lbs sometimes more. Using pallet jacks, hand trucks and platform carts. To deliver a valid drivers license is required. Our Distribution Center is located in Town Hill, 15 minutes from downtown Bar Harbor, this is also where our administrative offices are located.
Base rate is $18.00/hr
($17.00/hr plus $1.00 to $1.50/hr upon completing your work agreement)
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In addition to Retail Shop Clerk responsibilities, a Retail Shop Supervisor operates the shop when the shop Manager is not present. This includes supervising employees, assigning projects, counting the money at the end of the shift, printing reports at the end of the shift, helping clerks if they have a problem, helping customers with problems, training new clerks, locking the doors at the end of the night or opening the doors at the start of the day and getting the cash registers ready for the day. You will work closely with the shop manager, communicating any problems with an employee, product, or customer. Shop is open as early as 8:00 AM and as late as 11:00 PM. Also includes scooping ice cream cones, weighing fudge, and washing dishes.
Base rate is $17.50hr
($16.50/hr plus $1.00 to $1.50/hr upon completing your work agreement)
How to Apply
Your dates of availability affect your chances of employment. In general, the later you can stay, the better your chances will be for receiving an offer of employment. Be realistic and specific about the exact dates you will be available, as these dates will become part of your employment agreement.
We look forward to hearing from you. An online application is available, linked below.
* Once an application makes it through the initial screening process we rely on phone interviews to give us additional insight before making and employment offer. We try to have many of our employment decisions completed by April. You will be notified by mail on the status of your application.
The Acadia Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and hires without regard to race, color, ancestry, sex, religion, national origin, age (except where age is a bona fide occupational qualification), physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status.