Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Hawley, PA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is seeking a Produce Sales Associate who values respect, understanding, appreciation, teamwork, and community growth. This role is responsible for maintaining a well-stocked and visually appealing produce department to meet customer demands. Key duties include greeting customers, answering questions, handling special requests like fruit basket orders, and promptly resolving concerns. The associate will unpack, clean, trim, and stock produce, ensuring merchandise is in saleable condition through proper rotation and correct pricing with signage. Responsibilities also extend to maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable sections, accurately completing product logs, and managing spoiled or discontinued items according to company policy. General sanitation of the department is crucial, requiring adherence to cleaning schedules and department guidelines to meet health and OSHA requirements, including proper trash disposal. The associate will assist in minimizing shrink and controlling damages, reporting shortages and overages to management. With provided training, they may also assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries using power or hand jacks, and baling cardboard. Cooperation with co-workers and superiors is essential for smooth department and store operations, with a continuous focus on improving job performance. The position requires the utilization of all company-provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE), such as cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, and company-sponsored footwear. The associate may also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.
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.