Center Store Teammate

Woods Supermarket; Lake Ozark (MO); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Teammate discount

Competitive pay & benefits

Job summary

Woods Supermarket is seeking a Center Store Teammate to ensure proper presentation of merchandise on store shelves and displays while providing friendly assistance to guests. The role reports to the Store Manager and involves stocking, pricing, cleaning, and helping guests during peak periods.

In Woods Workplace Culture, teammates gain life experience in a friendly, team-oriented environment. Perks include flexible hours, a teammate discount, and competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• Basic mathematical ability (add, subtract, multiply, divide, count).
• Ability to read and write English and follow complex verbal instructions.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to open cases and stock to avoid damage.

Responsibilities

• Greet guests, answer questions, and explain store policies courteously.
• Prepare back room for receipt of merchandise and unload trucks.
• Clean floors, check lanes, carts, restrooms, and shelves.
• Stock merchandise on shelves, place items in correct areas, and face displays.
• Ensure safety and report hazards to a supervisor.
• Assist cashiers with bagging and bag contents when needed.
• Perform tasks assigned by supervisors during peak periods.

Skills

Mathematical ability

English literacy

Verbal instruction

Interpersonal skills

Attention to safety

Tools

Pallet jack

Forklift

Case cutter

Baler

Job description

Job Title: Center Store Teammate

Description: Our center store teammates ensure proper presentation of merchandise on store shelves and displays, while providing friendly assistance to guests.

Reports To: Store Manager

Woods Workplace Culture

At Woods Supermarket, the teammates’ role is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity. Teammates gain life experience that goes far beyond just serving great products in a friendly and fun environment. Woods Supermarket is an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are looking for hard-working, team-oriented, friendly, and honest people. Perks of being a Woods Supermarket Teammate include flexible hours, a teammate discount, and competitive pay & benefits!

Successful Teammates will conduct themselves in a positive attitude and truthful character demonstrating D>E service and our Hospitality 4.

Responsibilities

• To greet, respond to questions, and explain store policies too all guests in a courteous manner.
• To prepare the back room for receipt of merchandise, unload trucks and sort cases according to aisle or pallet.
• To clean store floors, check-lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot, and shelves, while safely using cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• To load stocking carts and pallets, transport cases to sales floor, match the case strip to the shelf tag or stock, place merchandise in the designated area, and "face" the front row of each display.
• To assure the safety of self, guests and teammates by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately.
• Remove all broken containers, packing materials, boxes, and trash from the sales floor or guests’ pathway immediately.
• To understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and fork lift (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, forklift, baler, and cutters).
• To count and record individual items of merchandise for inventory.
• To manually price mark/label merchandise without an UPC code.
• To move damaged, unsalable or "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting the materials into bins for return to the damage reclaim center.
• To use the proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to merchandise.
• To remove trash from the aisle, operating the baler, put the compacted bale on a pallet and load salvage on to trucks.
• To change signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers on the shelf display.
• To assist cashier's by bagging and carry out merchandise when needed.
• To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to guests during peak periods of business.

Work Environment

• Inside work with extreme variations in temperature, dust, humidity from back door, compressors, cooler, and freezer. Stockers perform their duties primarily in the grocery department and in the back room. Outside may be required.

Qualifications

Required

• Basic mathematical ability (add, subtract, multiply, divide, count)
• Able to give, receive complex verbal instructions, descriptions to and from supervisors and teammates concerning store or department policy and procedures and use of equipment.
• The ability to read and write English
• Make judgments concerning the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display (spatial relationship), case opening procedures and extent of unsalable product damage.
• Able to open cases and stock so products will not be damaged.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.

Physical Demands

This position will be required to regularly perform the following motions:

• Sit
• Stand
• Stoop
• Squat
• Bend
• Reach
• Push
• Pull
• Grip
• Twist
• Lift
• Climb
• Carry
• Walk
• Kneel

Every position title at Woods Supermarket has a physical requirement classification. The teammate must be able to perform the above motions “frequently” and “occasionally” under the strength level highlighted on the positions job description/physical capacity release form. Teammates performing in these roles are required to meet the minimum physical capacity so that they may safely perform their job duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Classification

Occasionally

Frequently

Sedentary

• 10lbs

Light

• 20lbs
• 10lbs

Medium

20lbs-50lbs

10lbs-25lbs

Heavy

50lbs-100lbs

25lbs-50lbs

Very Heavy

100lbs+

50lbs+

• = Negligible Weight

Teammates age 18 and older will be required to safely handle and operate the following:

• Case cutter
• Utility knife
• Forklift (with proper certification)
• Pallet jack
• Compact Baler

Teammates age 18 and older who work in food prep areas will be required to safely handle and operate the following:

• Slicer
• Oven
• Fryer
• Knives
• Mixers

Safety

• The teammate will not use drugs or alcohol on the job.
• The teammate will not create a direct threat to the health and safety of others on the job.

Woods Supermarket is committed to equal opportunity for all teammates and applicants. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other protected characteristic. Employment may be contingent upon Woods Supermarket’s receipt of an acceptable and job-related drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.

I have read the Job Description and am able to perform the job responsibilities and tasks of the job as described:

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