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HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION
Ghent, NY, US
Summary
Maintain the cleanliness and organization of the retail floor, back stock, deli, and office areas. Perform daily tasks such as sweeping, mopping, disinfecting bathrooms, and emptying trash bins.
Job Description
PURPOSE: To clean and maintain the general tidiness and organization of the store’s retail, back stock and office spaces, as well as, maintain an accountability of working self-sufficiently.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- CLEANING THE RETAIL SPACE
- Empty all garbage and recycling bins, (behind registers, coffee station, deli island, bulk kombucha, baked goods area) including any bins outside under or around the pavilion
- Roll-up rugs, vacuum, and return to proper places on the floor at end of shift
- Clean behind registers, remove mats, sweep area, mope area, return mats
- Sweep store entry between automatic doors and wipe down black railing inside and outside.
- Mop entry and put up “wet floor sign” where needed
- Sweep main retail floor, including aisles with attention to onion, coffee, and bulk areas
- Clean and disinfect downstairs bathroom (see Bathroom Cleaning Procedure)
- Re-stock toilet paper, paper towel dispenser and hand soap as needed.
- Mop downstairs bathroom floor at the end of the day ensuring that you have changed the mop water out with fresh clean water.
II. CLEANING THE BACK STOCK SPACE
- Empty all garbage and recycling bins
- Sweep and mop the dock and hallway
III. CLEANING THE DELI SPACE
- Sweep the deli floor, making sure to sweep underneath the island, shelves and sink.
- Mop the deli floor, ensuring that you have changed the mop water out with fresh clean water
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CLEANING THE OFFICE SPACE
- Empty all garbage and recycling bins, including paper shredders when full
- Sweep staircase, bathroom, break space, desk area, and counting room
- Mop bathroom floor and staircase daily and desk and break area weekly
- Disinfect/wipe down employee break table
- Clean and disinfect employee bathroom (see Bathroom Cleaning Procedure)
- Re-stock toilet paper, paper towels, and hand soap when needed
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CLOSING DUTIES
- Rinse mop heads and mop buckets
- Neatly return all brooms, butlers and vacuum to cleaning closet
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CUSTOMER SERVICE
- Assists customers with product questions, in prompt, friendly manner, ensuring to direct customers kindly and quickly to other store staff when unsure of product location or how to answer customer questions.
Located in the heart of New York’s verdant Hudson Valley, Hawthorne Valley Association is what many consider the future of agriculture, education, and community life to be. With more than 900 acres of lush farmland under management, a K-12 Waldorf school, farm-based learning experiences for all ages, and a robust network of social enterprise businesses that honor the earth, create meaningful jobs, and expand markets for healthy food, Hawthorne Valley encourages all its staff to put head, heart, and hands together to make the world a better place. Our reach extends from our home base in Columbia County to NYC’s Greenmarkets (our Biodynamic® produce, cheeses, and fermented products are prominently anchored in Union Square) to offices and boardrooms across the world where our alumni are making their impact.
Organized since 1972 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, our initiatives include: an early childhood through grade 12 Waldorf school; on-farm education programs; a full-line organic/natural foods and grocery store; an on site Biodynamic creamery, and organic bakery; an off-site lactofermentation enterprise; a 300-plus member Biodynamic CSA; social, ecological, and cultural research groups; teacher education programs; arts initiatives and more.
Our work is based on genuine human relationships, wonder and love of nature, and continued commitment to self-development and lifelong learning in a social context.
Founded
1972
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Farming
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Ghent, NY
Located in the heart of New York’s verdant Hudson Valley, Hawthorne Valley Association is what many consider the future of agriculture, education, and community life to be. With more than 900 acres of lush farmland under management, a K-12 Waldorf school, farm-based learning experiences for all ages, and a robust network of social enterprise businesses that honor the earth, create meaningful jobs, and expand markets for healthy food, Hawthorne Valley encourages all its staff to put head, heart, and hands together to make the world a better place. Our reach extends from our home base in Columbia County to NYC’s Greenmarkets (our Biodynamic® produce, cheeses, and fermented products are prominently anchored in Union Square) to offices and boardrooms across the world where our alumni are making their impact.
Organized since 1972 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, our initiatives include: an early childhood through grade 12 Waldorf school; on-farm education programs; a full-line organic/natural foods and grocery store; an on site Biodynamic creamery, and organic bakery; an off-site lactofermentation enterprise; a 300-plus member Biodynamic CSA; social, ecological, and cultural research groups; teacher education programs; arts initiatives and more.
Our work is based on genuine human relationships, wonder and love of nature, and continued commitment to self-development and lifelong learning in a social context.
Founded
1972
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Farming
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Ghent, NY