Center Store Teammate - Stocker

Woods Supermarket; Eldon (MO); On-site; USD 16,531 - 24,796; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Teammate discount

Competitive pay & benefits

Job summary

Woods Supermarket is hiring a Center Store Teammate in Eldon, Missouri. This role involves ensuring the proper presentation of merchandise, assisting guests, and performing various tasks to maintain store operations. Teammates should possess strong communication skills, basic math ability, and the capacity to perform physical duties frequently. This position is a great opportunity for individuals looking to join a supportive work environment with flexible hours and a teammate discount.

Qualifications

• Must be able to follow complex verbal instructions and communicate effectively.
• Capable of making judgments about product placement and stock opening.
• Able to lift heavy items and perform physical tasks regularly.

Responsibilities

• Ensure proper presentation of merchandise on shelves.
• Assist guests with questions and store policies.
• Prepare the back room for incoming merchandise.

Skills

Basic mathematical ability

Good interpersonal communication skills

Ability to read and write English

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

• Greet, respond to questions, and explain store policies to all guests in a courteous manner.
• Prepare the back room for receipt of merchandise, unload trucks and sort cases according to aisle or pallet.
• Clean store floors, check‑lans, carts, restrooms, parking lot, and shelves, while safely using cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• 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.
• Ensure 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.
• Understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and forklift (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, forklift, baler, and cutters).
• Count and record individual items of merchandise for inventory.
• Manually price mark/label merchandise without an UPC code.
• Move damaged, unsalable or returnable products from shelves to the backroom, sorting the materials into bins for return to the damage reclaim center.
• Use proper case‑opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to merchandise.
• Operate the baler, place the compacted bale on a pallet and load salvage onto trucks.
• Change signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers on the shelf display.
• Assist cashiers by bagging and carrying merchandise when needed.
• Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substitute for absent workers and perform 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 and 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

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

Teammates must be able to perform the motions frequently and occasionally under the strength level highlighted on the position’s job description/physical capacity release form. All 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.

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.