Grocery Stocker

About the role

At Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC), we’re not just about business—we’re about building a community where you can thrive. Based in Tyler, Texas, BGC operates over 215 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma under five unique banners: Brookshire's Grocery Company, Super 1 Foods, Spring Market, Fresh by Brookshire's, and Reasor's. This role maintains product levels and quality control in the grocery department, ensuring products are displayed according to Company standards and all regulatory food safety practices while promoting customer service and sales.

Responsibilities

• Maintains full stock conditions on grocery display racks and shelves.
• Operates pallet jack to unload product from warehouse trucks and reloads trucks with return items (partners 18yrs.+).
• Ensures dated product is stocked, rotated, or discarded properly if unsold.
• Inspects product for quality and maintains quality control and food safety standards.
• Collects empty cardboard boxes and other trash and places into bailer (partners 18yrs.+).
• Assists fellow partners and customers by responding to price check questions and exchanging and/or locating product.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Provides friendly and customer service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and responding to customer complaints.
• Maintains clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.
• Complies with all Company policies and procedures.
• Takes precautionary safety measures when using equipment and work tools.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Requirements

• Minimum of 16 years of age required.
• Minimum of 18 years of age required to operate equipment.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• Typically involves on-the-job training.

Skills

• Ability to operate manual or electric pallet jack (partners 18yrs.+).
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
• Ability to handle objects gently to avoid damage to items, people, vehicles, and property.
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, box cutters, etc.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods, and processes.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and prescription coverage.
• Paid time off to relax, recharge, and enjoy life.
• 401(k) plan with Company contributions to help build a solid future.
• Exclusive employee discounts on essentials.
• Scholarships and educational support to fuel your growth.
• Access to a 205-acre outdoor recreation area for unwinding and connecting.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Continuously required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Continuously required to bend, kneel, or squat.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, or crawl.
• Occasionally exposed to outside temperatures and weather.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Occasionally exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.