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.
• Maintains smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors.
• Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
• Utilizes 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.

Pay and Benefits

• Competitive Pay and Benefits
• Weis Markets offers a competitive wage with access to a variety of benefits and resources such as minimum essential coverage (MEC) Plan includes 100% in-network coverage for all preventative care services required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and have two supplemental medical plan options, the Advantage and Elite plans, dental, vision, short term disability, term life and AD&D, and voluntary insurance such as hospital indemnity and critical illness.
• Associate discount - 10% Weis brands, auto and home insurance, employee assistance program with mental health support and wellness, pet insurance, purchasing power and paid time off and sick pay provided the eligibility and criteria specific to the position is met.
• For information on obtaining New Jersey state benefits when unable to work due to a non-work-related illness or injury, or family leave please visit https://www.nj.gov/labor/myleavebenefits/.

Your Future

• Age 21 or older are auto-enrolled after 60 days into our 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• The employer match is 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions.
• Employer contributions are 100% vested after three consecutive years of service and completing 1,000 hours each year.
• Associates with one year of service as of March 1 may apply for our Weis scholarship program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.