Fort Union Trading Post Park Store Clerk/Intern

1. Duties and Essential Responsibilities: 

• Provide a positive customer experience with fair, friendly, and courteous service.

• Resolve customer issues and answers questions.

• Run register sales on Point-of-Sale system (POS) by scanning items and totaling customers’ purchases, collecting payments, making change for cash customers, and bagging purchases as needed.

• Perform daily register open and close procedures

• Maintain appearance of park store as needed and time allows:

  • Dust shelves/wipe down glass

  • Fill shelves from back stock

  • Tidy shelves and displays

• Opportunity for interpretive training available as employee desires.

2.  Qualifications/Skills:

• Minimum age 18 years

• Friendly and positive attitude

• Able to work with minimal supervision

• Excellent customer service and communication skills

• Basic math skills for making change

• Attention to detail

• Knowledge of the history of Fort Union and Montana-Dakota region is helpful, but not necessary.

3.  Position Specification/Physical Requirements: 

• Shifts will be up to 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Schedule TBD.

• Provide your own transportation to Fort Union. 

• Requires ability to carry boxes and items, and maneuver through 3 levels of the Visitor Center (Bourgeois House) and park store.

• Position duration is 6 months.