Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Binghamton, NY

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of it's associates and communities? That's WEIS! This position is responsible for keeping the produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. The associate will smile and greet customers, answer customer questions, handle special requests, and resolve customer concerns promptly. Responsibilities include unpacking merchandise, cleaning and trimming produce, stocking new merchandise, ensuring merchandise is in saleable condition by rotating stock, and ensuring product is properly priced with correct signage. The role also involves maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed, assisting in building attractive displays, and accurately completing necessary product logs. The associate will handle spoiled and damaged product, new items, and discontinued items according to company policy, and maintain general sanitation in the department by following cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases are well maintained, clean, and meet health and OSHA requirements. Trash disposal, minimizing shrink, controlling damages, and reporting shortages/overages to the manager are also key duties. Depending on training, the associate may assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries, and baling cardboard. The role requires cooperation with co-workers and superiors for the smooth function of the department and store, continuous improvement of job performance, and utilization of all company-provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). The associate may also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Requirements

Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
No prior experience required.
Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Training provided for operating power jack or hand jack.
Training provided for baling cardboard or other related duties.

Responsibilities

Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise.
Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness.
Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage.
Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
Assists in building attractive displays.
Accurately completes necessary product logs.
Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
Responsible for general sanitation in the department.
Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
Disposes of trash properly.
Assists in minimizing shrink and controlling damages.
Reports shortages and overages to manager.
May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries through operation of power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.