Seafood Sales Associate

Weis Markets•Berwick, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

WEIS is seeking a Seafood Sales Associate for its 1105 Chestnut Street location. The company values respect, understanding, and appreciation for its associates, and is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its employees and communities. This role involves maintaining a well-stocked and appealing seafood area, providing excellent customer service by greeting customers, offering suggestions, providing preparation information, taking orders, and resolving concerns. The associate will also be responsible for setting up displays, rotating products, ensuring freshness and proper pricing, handling spoiled or damaged products, weighing and wrapping merchandise, and maintaining quality logs. Adherence to food and personal safety codes, general department sanitation, and following cleaning schedules are crucial. The position also includes assisting the manager with inventory control, minimizing losses, reporting discrepancies, and potentially assisting with deliveries using a power or hand jack, and baling cardboard after proper training. The company emphasizes continuous job performance improvement and cooperation with co-workers and superiors. Weis Markets is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and offers growth and career opportunities for associates.

Requirements

Completed or working towards a high school diploma or general education degree (GED).
No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

Keeps seafood area well stocked and appealing to meet customer requirements.
Smiles and greets customers, makes suggestions and provides information on seafood preparation.
Takes orders for future delivery and helps fill special requests.
Helps resolve customer concerns in a prompt and courteous manner.
Sets up displays and rotates product as needed.
Ensures that seafood is fresh, in saleable condition with proper prices and signage.
Handles product that is spoiled, damaged or close to expiration as detailed by company procedures and standards.
Removes product that is not saleable to ensure quality.
Weighs and wraps merchandise for customers and applies sticker showing price and weight.
Maintains necessary logs to track freshness and quality.
Adheres to all food and personal safety codes when handling product or utilizing kitchen tools.
Responsible for general sanitation of 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.
Helps manager control inventory through proper ordering.
Helps minimize losses by returning products to refrigeration.
Reports shortages or overages to manager.
May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries through operation of a 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).
May also be called upon to assist in other departments.