Produce Dept

Description

Summary: Obtains or prepares food items requested by customers in retail food store by performing the following duties.

• Fills customer order by obtaining items from shelves, freezers, coolers, bins, tables, or containers.
• Cleans shelves, bins, tables, and coolers.
• Stamps, marks, or tags price on merchandise.
• Sets up displays and stocks shelves, coolers, counter, bins, tables, freezers, containers, or trays with new merchandise.

Receivers:

• Knowledge on using pallet jacks and forklift (license required). Break down pallets; Unload trucks and make sure the products are in the proper place; Keeping product rotated in the coolers and backroom; Keep coolers clean such as: moving pallets, cleaning cooler floors, cleaning cooler walls, etc. Empty garbage bins out back into dumpsters; Putting away supplies that are delivered; Use bailer; Answer phone calls.

Prep Backroom:

• Ability to use knives; Wash equipment such as: knives, trays, cutting surfaces; Keep area clean;
• Use bailer; Answer phone calls; Clean and mop backroom floors; Go to shed to get the supplies for their duties.

Sales Floor:

• Filling products on sales floor; Rotating product on sales floor; Picking up anything that has fallen on the floor, whether in cooler or on sales floor; Sweeping and moping as needed; Operate and pull float/cart; Clean cases; Greet and assist customers as needed; Answer phone calls.

Requirements

Competencies

Customer Service - Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance.

Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Tolerate working in coolers (40 degrees) and freezer (-20 degrees).