Fresh Seafood Counter Specialist

Whole Foods Market; Riverdale Park (MD); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Store discount

Paid time off

Financial wellness

Wellness programs

Team member perks

Job summary

Whole Foods Market in Riverdale Park, MD is seeking an entry-level Team Member to support the seafood team with counter service, stocking, and sanitation duties. The role emphasizes courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service and requires adherence to health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities include maintaining fresh displays, pricing accuracy, back stock, clean environments, and assisting with sampling programs.

Qualifications

• Ability to sell proactively.
• Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department.
• Ability to visually examine products for quality and freshness.
• Proactively reads labels and familiarizes oneself on various products.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.

Responsibilities

• Ensures a fresh and appealing display by checking quality, keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked, rotating and removing out-of-date products, filling ice tables, and performing other duties as assigned.
• Maintains accurate department signage and pricing.
• Maintains back stock in good order.
• Maintains a safe, clean and well-organized working and shopping environment.
• Assists with sampling program, keeping sample areas full, clean and appealing.
• Cleans cases, glass, signs, uprights, coolers, smokers, floors, and drains as required.
• Skins, bones, and cooks or smokes fish; boxes up, labels, and dates cooked fish.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
• Performs other duties as assigned by store, regional, or national leadership.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication

Time management

Work ethic

Attention to quality

Following procedures

Product knowledge

Job description

Whole Foods Market in Riverdale Park, MD is seeking an entry-level Team Member to support the seafood team with counter service, stocking, and sanitation duties. The role emphasizes courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service and requires adherence to health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities include maintaining fresh displays, pricing accuracy, back stock, clean environments, and assisting with sampling programs.