Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Jersey Shore, PA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is looking for a Produce Sales Associate for its 1440 Allegheny Street location. The company emphasizes respect, understanding, appreciation, teamwork, and the growth of its associates and communities. The Produce Sales Associate is responsible for maintaining a well-stocked and appealing produce department, ensuring customer satisfaction through greetings, answering questions, and handling special requests. Key duties include unpacking, cleaning, trimming, stocking, rotating, and pricing merchandise to ensure freshness and saleable condition. The role also involves maintaining the salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable sections, assisting with displays, accurately completing product logs, and managing spoiled or damaged items according to company policy. General sanitation of the department, adherence to cleaning schedules, and meeting health and OSHA requirements are crucial. Associates are expected to minimize shrink, control damages, and report shortages or overages to management. Training will be provided for operating power jacks or hand jacks for receiving and storing deliveries, and for baling cardboard. The position requires cooperation with co-workers and superiors to ensure smooth department and store function, continuous job performance improvement, and the utilization of company-provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). Associates may also be asked to assist in other departments.

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.
Utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear.

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.