Seafood Associate

About the Role

Provides quality seafood offerings from a standard product selection. Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions. Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable, and prompt service. Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.

Responsibilities

• Service (60%)
  • Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated to increase customer confidence and loyalty.
  • Ensures the department is merchandised per plan.
  • Delivers daily conditions that meet the company’s expectations for on-shelf product availability, freshness, quality, and value.
  • Offers product samples, answers product questions, and assists customers in finding or suggesting products.
  • Ensures customer requests and special orders are fulfilled.
• Leadership (20%)
  • Assists in promoting trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job-specific information.
  • Assists in establishing goals for merchandising, sales, and profits and empowers the team to meet or exceed the goals.
  • Manages schedules to ensure tasks are completed in a cadence that ensures the highest levels of customer service and conditions during peak hours.
  • Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
• Financial (10%)
  • Completes daily and weekly administrative tasks (communications, online training, scheduling, pricing changes, orders, etc.).
  • Maintains an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions and reports any discrepancies in inventory.
  • Reviews/inspects products for quality and freshness and takes appropriate action with those items.
  • Assists in planning, organizing, and performing the inventory process.
  • Utilizes production planning tools to accurately produce fresh products and ensures discarding or markdown processes are followed to reduce shrink.
  • Ensures product is held at the proper temperature per food safety guidelines and retains documentation of temperature logs per policy.
• Compliance/Safety (10%)
  • Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, and productivity are maintained.
  • Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
  • Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access.
  • Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management.
  • Notifies management of customer or employee accidents.
  • Reports all safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
  • Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
  • Cultivates a culture of safety within the store.
  • Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training.
  • Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required.
  • Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (e.g., lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of basic math.
• Possess adequate knife handling skills and knife speed.
• Knowledge of cutting, traying, wrapping, and labeling.
• Proficient with computer applications used in effectively operating the department.

Qualifications

• Preferred Education: High School / GED
• Language Skills: English (required), Spanish (preferred)
• Relevant Experience: 0–3 years minimum supervisory experience

Environmental Factors

Physical Demands: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell, and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet. The employee is frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift various loads up to the required weights listed. The employee is occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 10 ft.

Working Conditions: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee may be exposed to working in indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid conditions.

Safety Risk Factors: The employee is frequently required to twist back and/or neck, walk on a slippery or cluttered floor surface, work with hazardous equipment, and be exposed to sharp objects. The employee is occasionally required to be exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions, and other toxins.

Equipment Used:

• Overall Required Equipment: Cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment (e.g., racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts).
• Department-Specific Required Equipment: Baler/compactor, general hardware tools (e.g., ladder, pliers, wire cutters), ice machine, shovel, powered cutting equipment (e.g., slicers, saws, grinders), various knives, wrapping equipment, automatic meat wrapper, lobster tanks, box cutter.
• Personal Protective Equipment: Goggles, gloves, cutting gloves, fryer gloves, oven gloves, back brace.

Physical Requirements:

• Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs.
• Lifting Requirement: 70 lbs.

Schedule: Varied shifts.