PRODUCE MANAGER

About the Role

This position oversees all aspects of the produce department, ensuring profitability, productivity, and adherence to company guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Achieve desired gross profit and productivity levels.
• Project sales, product movement, and labor needs.
• Order product according to established guidelines.
• Receive and unload truck deliveries using available equipment.
• Establish daily work assignments and priorities for produce department personnel.
• Handle personnel issues, including interviewing, hiring, training, performance evaluation, discipline, and discharge, following established guidelines.
• Complete all required forms, records, reports, and verify receipts.
• Prepare weekly work schedules according to established guidelines.
• Stock and straighten merchandise and supplies.
• Mark items with correct selling prices using a pricing/label gun.
• Rotate merchandise according to anticipated shelf life and product expiration dates.
• Perform basic housekeeping duties using available equipment (mops, brooms, floor scrubbing, and buffing machines).
• Operate all required tools and equipment safely.
• Lift and move items weighing up to 50 pounds (occasionally over 50 pounds).
• Ensure coolers and cases maintain appropriate temperatures.
• Maintain a neat and clean work area.
• Perform all essential job functions at an acceptable level of speed and accuracy.

Requirements

• Ability to work in temperature extremes (e.g., produce cooler maximum low temperature of 32 degrees).
• Standing and/or walking at a rapid pace for extended periods.
• Follow dress code and established safety policies and procedures.
• Follow written and oral instructions.
• Work well with others.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Legible handwriting or printing.
• Eyesight corrected to 20/20.
• Hearing corrected to normal range.
• Full range of motion in shoulders, arms, hands, legs, and feet.