Produce Partner

About the role

Brookshire Grocery Company (BGC) is a diverse chain of grocery stores operating in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexibility, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Maintains product levels and quality control in produce department.
• Ensures fresh fruits and vegetables are displayed according to company standards and all regulatory food safety practices.
• Promotes customer service and sales building practices.
• Maintains full stock conditions on produce display racks, tables, and shelves.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares equipment for operation, and examines to check working order under supervision.
• Operates pallet jack to unload product from warehouse trucks and reloads trucks with return items.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• 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 extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.

Skills

• Ability to operate manual or electric pallet jack.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment under supervision.
• Ability to handle objects carefully 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 using a variety of educational resources.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• 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.
• Uses sharp tools for opening boxes.
• Cuts and trims product to ensure high quality presentation and appearance under supervision.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including wellness programs, flexible time off, savings options, educational support, and more. Our employees also have access to a 205-acre outdoor recreation area for relaxation and enjoyment.

Pay

Compensation details will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

Flexible scheduling is available to accommodate your needs.