Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Williamsport, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Weis Markets is seeking a Produce Sales Associate. The company emphasizes respect, understanding, appreciation, teamwork, and associate and community growth. This role is responsible for maintaining a well-stocked and appealing produce department, ensuring customer satisfaction through excellent service, handling merchandise, and maintaining product freshness and proper pricing. Key duties include unpacking, cleaning, trimming, stocking produce, maintaining salad bar and displays, completing product logs, and managing spoiled or damaged items. The associate is also responsible for department sanitation, following cleaning schedules, and adhering to health and OSHA requirements. Additionally, the role involves minimizing shrink, reporting shortages, and potentially assisting with deliveries using power or hand jacks, baling cardboard, and supporting other departments as needed. The position requires continuous improvement in job performance and proper utilization of company-provided Personal Protective Equipment.

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.