Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Jersey Shore, PA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is seeking a Produce Sales Associate who will be responsible for maintaining a well-stocked and appealing produce department to meet customer demands. This role involves direct customer interaction, including greeting customers, answering questions, handling special requests like fruit basket orders, and promptly resolving concerns in a polite and professional manner. Key duties include unpacking, cleaning, trimming, and stocking produce, ensuring merchandise is in saleable condition through stock rotation, and verifying correct pricing and signage. The associate will also maintain the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable sections, complete necessary product logs, and handle spoiled/damaged items according to company policy. General sanitation, adherence to cleaning schedules, and maintaining work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases to meet health and OSHA requirements are essential. The position also involves proper trash disposal, assisting in minimizing shrink and controlling damages, and reporting shortages and overages to management. Associates may also assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries using a power jack or hand jack (training provided), and may assist with baling cardboard or other related duties (training provided). Cooperation with co-workers and superiors is expected to ensure smooth department and store function, with a continuous focus on improving job performance and utilizing company-provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). The company emphasizes respect, understanding, appreciation, teamwork, and the growth of its associates and communities, offering talent development and career opportunities.

Requirements

Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
No prior experience required.

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.