Produce Stocker

About the role

Maintains product levels and quality control in produce and floral departments. Ensures fresh fruits and vegetables are displayed in accordance with Company standards and all regulatory food safety practices. Promotes customer service and sales building practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintains full stock conditions on produce and floral display racks, tables, and shelves.
• 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.
• Collections empty cardboard boxes and other trash and places into bailer.
• Aids 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.
• Complies with all Company policies and procedures.
• Practices high sanitary standards for handling raw and uncooked food products.
• Cleans, assembles, and prepares equipment for operation, and examines to check working order under supervision.

Requirements

• Minimum of 18 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.

Qualifications

• Typically involves on-the-job training.
• 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.