Apparel Grader & Sorter — Quality & Merchandising

Memphis Goodwill Inc.; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 14,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Memphis Goodwill Inc. is seeking a retail associate in Memphis, TN to sort apparel, tag items, and prepare merchandise for the sales floor. The role emphasizes brand awareness, pricing knowledge, and maintaining clean, organized work areas.

You will follow safety procedures, review recall information, and collaborate with team leaders to meet daily production goals and store standards.

Responsibilities

• Stays abreast of brand names, designer labels, current and vintage styles, and price points for soft line goods.
• Sorts apparel into boutique, salable, and salvage categories. Place all salable apparel in the hang area of the sort table, tag and/or size apparel, hang apparel onto racks and transport racks of hung apparel to sales floor.
• Provides quality assurance by checking for tears, stains, wet, smelly, soiled, broken zippers, missing buttons.
• Recognize apparel brand names, knowledgeable on pricing, and grade quality of apparel.
• Achieves and exceeding the MGI production goals of (4) Dandux/Tallboys each day.
• Maintains sorting and processing area in a neat and clean condition at all times.
• Adheres to all policies and procedures; follow good safety and security practices including reporting safety hazards and injuries to the Team Leader Coach or ATL.
• Reviews and utilizes current Consumer Product Safety Commission recall bulletins to prevent unsafe items from being sold in the store.
• Handles equipment and follow safety procedures when moving equipment: push, not pull and never overfill equipment.
• May assists with floor running, apparel rotation, cleaning dressing rooms as needed.
• Responsible for performing assigned duties within the framework of our Guiding Principles.
• Attends in-service related training as assigned by Team Leader Coach.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Team Leader Coach.

Job description

Memphis Goodwill Inc. is seeking a retail associate in Memphis, TN to sort apparel, tag items, and prepare merchandise for the sales floor. The role emphasizes brand awareness, pricing knowledge, and maintaining clean, organized work areas.

You will follow safety procedures, review recall information, and collaborate with team leaders to meet daily production goals and store standards.