Production Associate Textiles
About The Position
The Production Associate Textiles greets and assists donors and customers, helps unload donations, and processes donated textiles for sale or salvage. The role includes sorting and quality-selecting apparel, hanging clothing, affixing price tags, preparing racks and bins, and transporting and displaying merchandise in the store. The associate also helps load and unload trucks and trailers and supports individuals with disabilities or disadvantages by working alongside them and assisting in the rehabilitation process. The position contributes to store production and sales goals by meeting sorting, pricing, and hanging productivity standards. It also involves maintaining an orderly and clean store and processing area, supporting inventory security, following safety requirements and company procedures, and working with store management and other associates to move donations to the sales floor promptly. The role may include assisting in other areas or transferring to other stores as requested.
Requirements
- Experience in used goods or a retail store is helpful.
- Knowledge of a wide variety of products to determine whether items are complete and of good value.
- Ability to make quick decisions about merchandise quality.
- Pleasant and friendly attitude.
- Ability to read, write, and speak English is preferred.
- Basic math aptitude.
- Ability to follow written or verbal instructions.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends.
- Willingness to transfer to other stores as requested.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective professional working relationships with supervisors, coworkers, customers, donors, and people receiving services.
- Ability to maintain a positive, friendly attitude and a neat, clean, well-groomed appearance.
- Ability to provide support services to people with disabilities or disadvantages and assist in the rehabilitation process.
- Ability to lift at least 30 pounds.
- Ability to stand for long periods and repeatedly bend, reach, and stretch during a shift.
- Ability to move throughout the store, production area, and donation center or site.
- Ability to meet daily textile production requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in used goods or a retail store.
Responsibilities
- Greet donors promptly and courteously, assist with unloading donations, offer tax receipts, and maintain accurate daily donor counts.
- Examine donated items for quality and place them in appropriate locations for pricing and distribution.
- Sort and quality-select apparel into saleable and salvage categories.
- Prepare clothing racks, bins, and other items for the store.
- Hang textiles correctly, affix price tags, transport merchandise to the sales floor, and display it in the appropriate location.
- Meet hanging, sorting, pricing, and daily production standards, including producing 700 pieces daily or as required by textile production standards.
- Clean, replace, and display merchandise toppers and maintain merchandise displays according to guidelines and procedures.
- Maintain a neat and orderly store and processing area through housekeeping tasks such as returning and rearranging merchandise, dusting, and sweeping.
- Assist in achieving store production and sales goals and suggest improvements to material flow and job tasks to the supervisor.
- Help load and unload trucks and trailers and work with store management and associates to move donations to the sales floor in a timely manner.
- Support store inventory security and observe customers to help reduce pilferage of Goodwill property.
- Attend required meetings and training sessions and adhere to company policies and procedures.
- Maintain acceptable attendance, personal hygiene, and dress-code standards, including wearing a company-issued name badge.
- Demonstrate respectful work habits and serve as a positive role model for employees, program participants, and individuals receiving rehabilitative services.
- Follow safety rules, maintain the work area to company standards, and report accidents or injuries immediately.
- Maintain confidentiality regarding the company and people receiving services.
- Assist in other areas as requested and transfer to other stores when requested.
- Provide support services by working with individuals with disabilities or disadvantages and assisting in the rehabilitation process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
