Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Williamsport, PA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Weis Markets is seeking a Produce Sales Associate for its location at 1916 Lycoming Creek Road. The company values respect, understanding, and appreciation for its associates, and is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its employees and communities. This role involves maintaining a well-stocked and appealing produce department, providing excellent customer service, handling merchandise, ensuring product freshness and proper pricing, maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetables, and assisting with displays. The associate is also responsible for department sanitation, minimizing shrink, and potentially assisting with deliveries and baling cardboard after proper training. Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to non-discrimination and fostering an environment for talent development and career opportunities.

Requirements

Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.

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). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.