Seafood Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Mill Hall, PA

About The Position

The Seafood Sales Associate keeps the seafood department stocked, attractive, fresh, and properly priced while providing courteous customer service. The role includes answering customer questions and offering seafood preparation suggestions, taking orders and helping with special requests, maintaining product quality and freshness, weighing and wrapping merchandise, and following food-safety and personal-safety procedures. The associate also helps maintain department sanitation, manage inventory and product losses, and support deliveries and other store departments as needed. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Completed or currently pursuing a high school diploma or GED.
No prior experience required.
Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, with or without accommodation.

Responsibilities

Keep the seafood area stocked and appealing to meet customer needs.
Greet customers, suggest seafood preparation options, provide product information, take future-delivery orders, fulfill special requests, and help resolve concerns promptly and courteously.
Set up displays and rotate products as needed; ensure seafood is fresh, saleable, and displayed with correct prices and signage.
Handle spoiled, damaged, or near-expiration products according to company procedures, and remove unsaleable products.
Weigh and wrap merchandise and apply labels showing price and weight.
Maintain logs tracking product freshness and quality.
Follow food and personal safety codes when handling products and using kitchen tools.
Maintain department sanitation by following cleaning schedules and guidelines; keep work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases clean and maintained in accordance with health and OSHA requirements; dispose of trash properly.
Help the manager control inventory through proper ordering, minimize losses by returning products to refrigeration, and report shortages or overages.
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 and 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.