Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Lebanon, PA

About The Position

The Produce Sales Associate stocks and maintains an appealing produce department, supports customers, and helps ensure merchandise is fresh, accurately priced, and saleable. The role includes handling produce, maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit and vegetables as needed, building displays, completing product logs, and following company policies for damaged, spoiled, new, and discontinued items. The associate is responsible for department sanitation and for keeping work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases clean and maintained in accordance with health and OSHA requirements. The role also supports shrink and damage control, may assist with deliveries and cardboard baling when properly trained, cooperates with coworkers and supervisors, and may help in other departments. The position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Keep the produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
Greet customers, answer questions, handle special requests such as fruit basket orders, and resolve concerns politely and professionally.
Unpack merchandise, clean and trim produce, stock merchandise, and rotate stock to maintain freshness.
Ensure produce is saleable and correctly priced with appropriate signage.
Maintain the salad bar and cut fruit and vegetables as needed.
Assist in building attractive displays and accurately complete product logs.
Handle spoiled, damaged, new, and discontinued products according to company policy.
Maintain department sanitation by following cleaning schedules and department guidelines; keep work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases clean and maintained to health and OSHA requirements.
Dispose of trash properly.
Help minimize shrink and control damages, and report shortages and overages to the manager.
When properly trained, assist with receiving, unloading, checking in, breaking down, and storing deliveries using a power jack or hand jack.
When properly trained, assist with baling cardboard or related duties.
Cooperate with coworkers and superiors to support smooth department and store operations and continuously improve job performance.
Use company-provided personal protective equipment, including cut-resistant gloves, safety cutters, and company-sponsored footwear.
Assist in other departments when called upon.