Produce Manager

Responsibilities

• Team leadership
• Customer Service
• Inventory Control
• Mercantising
• Place orders and maintain produce department supplies
• Monitor temperature of cases, shelves and storage areas and reports any failures to the Store Manager
• Ensure quality standards including rotating products that are filled, culling/grading all product throughout the day and repurposing salvageable product
• Ensure cleanliness and sanitation standards are kept and maintained throughout the department
• Maintenance of salad bar freshness and cleanliness
• Use various Produce Dept & cleaning equipment, bailer, pallet jacks and forklifts in compliance with company safety policy
• Understand and practice store safety rules and notifying a store manager of any potential hazard immediately
• Pricing Competition price checks
• Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the Store Manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to customers during peak periods of business

Requirements

• Work and education history demonstrating stability
• 4+ years of experience in produce
• Ability to effectively communicate
• Basic Mathematical Skills Required (add, Subtract, Multiply, And Divide)
• Experience, understanding, and knowledge of operations in a food service business/industry
• Basic reading and writing ability
• Must be a self-starter

Physical Demands

• Work on tile or concrete standing for extended periods of time
• Lift a maximum of 50 lbs. from 6 inches to 84 inches, overhead
• Move a maximum of 50 lbs. up to 15 yards
• Reach forward and/or down with both hands up to 36 inches
• Handle labels, signs or tags, case cutter or utility knife, grasp and handle wet, iced, cold, metal, paper, plastic products, cardboard, packaging, and debris
• Bend and Twist at the waist while reaching and holding items
• Climb on ladders, racks, cases, shelving, and stairs up to three feet in height
• Balance on wet, slick, dirty and debris strewn floors