Produce Sales Associate

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands.
• Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise.
• Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness.
• Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage.
• Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
• Aids in building attractive displays.
• Accurately completes necessary product logs.
• Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
• Maintains general sanitation in the department.
• Fulfills cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements.
• Disposes of trash properly.
• Assists in minimizing shrink and controlling damages.
• Reports shortages and overages to manager.
• May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries through operation of power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained.
• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
• Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
• Responsible for utilizing all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE).

Qualification Requirements

• Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
• No prior experience required.

Rate Of Pay And Benefits

• The hourly pay for this position starts at $15.00 and is up to $22.00.
• Weis Markets offers a competitive salary with access to a variety of benefits and resources such as minimum essential coverage (MEC), dental, vision, short term disability, term life and AD&D, and voluntary insurance such as hospital indemnity, critical illness, 401(k) assistance program, pet insurance, purchasing power and paid time off and sick pay provided the eligibility and criteria specific to the position is met.
• Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.