Floral Designer-Fairbanks

Albertsons Companies • Fairbanks, AK

11h • Onsite

About The Position

Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Receives deliveries, stocks product, maintains product displays, designs floral arrangements, and reviews the status and appearance of merchandise for freshness. This role is responsible for inventory control through pricing, labeling, stocking, and watering, ensuring an adequate product supply is ready and on hand. The Floral Designer also builds and replenishes floral displays, designs and assembles fresh and silk floral arrangements, and ensures proper merchandising of product. Daily record keeping, cleaning of floral equipment and work areas, and adherence to all company policies, safety, and sanitation regulations are also key aspects of this position. The role requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, and mental alertness for safe and accurate work. It involves operating various tools and equipment, and may require working nights, weekends, and holidays with varying scheduled hours and good attendance.

Requirements

• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary.
• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities.
• Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures.
• Must have knowledge of produce variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.
• Operates telephones, knives, scissors, safety cutters, stem cutters, wire, staples, hot glue guns, spray paints, balloon heat sealing machines and helium tanks.
• Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment.
• Utilizes knives and safety cutters.
• Requires use of latex gloves.
• Good attendance is required.
• Must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.
• Hands are frequently exposed to cold water, rose thorns, and a wide variety of plants, flowers, soil mixtures, flower arranging materials and cleaning agents.
• Working conditions consist of a temperature controlled store environment, backroom receiving and production area, and outdoor weather conditions.
• Exposure to 40˚ Fahrenheit while handling products and/or working in a cooler.
• Frequent exposure to outdoor weather conditions during times when plants, shrubs and trees are displayed outdoors.

Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service.
• Answers the department telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service, including taking product orders.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Responsible for proper inventory control through pricing, labeling, stocking, and watering.
• Ensures an adequate product supply is ready and on hand and develops or follows a production list.
• Reviews the status and appearance of the product for freshness and replenishes and rotates product.
• Builds and replenishes floral displays.
• Designs and assembles fresh and silk floral arrangements.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signage procedures, and meeting customer demands.
• Prepares and completes all daily record keeping and documentation required by Company, Store Director or Produce Manager.
• Cleans all floral equipment, merchandising vehicles and cases, floors, doors, walls and storage areas according to sanitation schedule and standards.
• Removes trash in a timely manner.
• Disassembles and flattens packing boxes and loads disassembled boxes into the baler.
• Ensures all areas of the department remain organized according to “5S” standards.
• Inflates balloons using helium tank for display and customer requests.
• Cuts, trims and wraps flowers and foliage as necessary.
• Checks invoices against delivered products and supplies; places delivered product in designated product storage areas according to “5S” standards.
• Adheres to all company policies, procedures, Safety and Sanitation regulations, and individual store guidelines.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.
• Protects associates and customers by removing potential hazards from the sales floor in a timely manner.
• Implements correct product preparation techniques.
• Uses and operates related equipment such as pallet jack, hand truck, scissors, knives, safety cutters, stem cutters, wire, hot glue guns, spray paint, balloon heat sealing machines, helium tanks and garbage disposal.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling.
• Makes intercom announcements.
• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of work area, cooler, equipment and display area.
• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.
• Updates price changes as needed in scales, on shelves and displays.
• Updates Department décor for seasonal merchandising.
• Changes labels and reloads supplies in department.

Benefits

• Albertsons Companies is committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging.
• We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
• We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.
• Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
• This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law.
• Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at 1-888-255-2269(option #4).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed