Location: 50th & France, Edina - 55424

Role Type: Hourly PT

Schedule: Variable (Including Evenings, Weekends)

Hourly Rate: $16 -$20 USD

Join us and we’ll inspire connection and community together with each interaction. At Vivront, it’s all about kitchen enthusiasm. We help make cooking the best part of the day. 

About Vivront

We help cooks get the most out of their kitchen time. We’re an important part of the cooking journey where we connect and create memories while empowering home cooks and pro cooks to confidently do more. We create moments of connection in our store and online. We’re curious at the core and we share our know-how, services, education and retail efforts when we get the chance. We do this because humans commune around food and we are partners in building positive communities.

You’d make a solid Kitchen Knife Sharpener if you:

• Enjoy working with your hands in pursuit of quality
• Can commit to work schedules and follow through
• Are able to take notes and track progress
• Are open and eager to learning new things especially about kitchen knives
• Love working as a team and appreciate the chance to collaborate
• Have a focus on quality and take pride in your work
• Are comfortable with responsibilities like cash-handling and store safety
• Can maintain a clean and organized workspaces and take good notes
• Tend toward over communicating

As a Kitchen Knife Sharpener you’ll do the following:

• Continually grow your kitchen knife knowledge and sharpening skill through education and practice
• Be the face of Vivront for customer check in and out
• Offer know-how and support for sharpening
• Effectively operate the retail shop for checkin and checkout during business hours
• Participate and/or lead professionally informed skills classes with joy and encouragement, while ending on time, leaving students with a desire to return and promptly tidying up and resetting the classroom
• Make it right for the guest by de-escalating any negative situations and recover the guest shopping experience while following Vivront's policies and procedures
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance
• Work in a safe predictable manner at all times to benefit yourself and others
• All other duties based on business needs

Basic qualifications:

Maintain regular and consistent attendance and punctuality with or without reasonable accommodation
Engage with and understand our customers, including discovering and responding to customer needs through clear and pleasant communication
Prepare customer orders per operational guidelines or customized to customer requests.
Available to perform many different tasks with the store during each shift
Available to work flexible hours with an emphasis on weekends and Mondays
Meet store operating policies and standards, including providing quality service, cash handling, inventory management tasks and store safety and security, with or without reasonable accommodation
Can stand for 8 hours a day

Required knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Strong and demonstrated self-discipline
• Ability to learn quickly
• Ability to sell in a retail context
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and request clarification when needed
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to build relationships
• Ability to operate retail software
• Ability to teach

We look forward to working and learning along with you and our community.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Know of someone that'd be a great knife specialist? Let them, and us, know.

Job Type: Part-time

Rate: $16.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Referral program

Schedule:

• 4-8 hour shifts
• Weekends avalible

Supplemental pay types: Bonus opportunities

Ability to commute/relocate: Minneapolis, MN 55410: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education: High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience: Metal work: 2 years (prefered)
 

Work Location:  In person