Dairy Supervisor

About the Role

Performs a wide range of duties in the Dairy Department while working with and reporting to the Grocery Manager.

Responsibilities

• Assists the Grocery Manager in directing the operation of the Dairy Department, including supervising and training personnel.
• Assists in ordering, receiving, storing, stocking, inventory control, and building displays.
• Encourages and maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on safe, friendly, and courteous service; engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
• Assists the Grocery Manager in planning, organizing regular and seasonal merchandise requirements, and special sales needs.
• Rotates and faces product; cleans and dusts shelves; processes and discards outdated and spoiled products; prevents the sale of out-of-code product.
• Orders Dairy merchandise.
• Trains, teaches, and coaches dairy stocking and conditioning standards.
• Assists with the "dry grocery" order writing, stocking, and conditioning.
• Works on new items and assists with the reclamation process.
• Manages backroom inventory, conditions, and standards.
• Assists with grocery department merchandising and building displays.
• May act as a backup cashier.

Requirements

• Strong written and oral communication skills, good leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to maintain composure in dealing with customers, vendors, and co-workers.
• Friendly, courteous, and takes initiative.
• Ability to judge and react to business activity.
• Complies with all Company policies including attendance, grooming standards, and dress codes.
• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks, and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 80 lbs., within the range of floor level to overhead.
• Ability to push and pull fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks.
• Ability to stand, walk, and move rapidly for long periods of time; bend, stoop, twist, and turn frequently; may climb ladders.
• Mental alertness required for safe, accurate completion of work activities and repetitious work.
• Knowledge of basic mathematics; ability to learn inventory control, pricing, merchandising, and shipping and receiving procedures.

Physical Environment

• Exposure to cleaning chemicals.
• Frequently exposed to temperatures of 35° Fahrenheit while handling product in a cold case, 28° Fahrenheit in a cooler, and -20° Fahrenheit in a freezer.
• Working conditions consist of a temperature-controlled store environment, with exposure to varying temperatures in the loading and receiving area.
• Occasional exposure to outdoor environment with varying temperatures.

This is a safety-sensitive position; job responsibilities include tasks or duties that could affect the safety or health of the employee performing the task or others.