GRADER/SORTER-Hernando East

Memphis Goodwill Inc.; Hernando (MS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Memphis Goodwill Inc. is seeking a detail‑oriented store associate to sort apparel into boutique, salable, and salvage categories and prepare items for the sales floor.

You will tag, size, and hang merchandise while upholding safety and cleanliness standards in a busy retail environment. The role requires recognizing brand names, understanding pricing, and assessing garment quality to meet production goals and maintain store presentation.

Qualifications

• Ability to sort apparel and classify into boutique, salable, and salvage categories.
• Knowledgeable about brand names, pricing, and quality grading of apparel.
• Attention to safety, cleanliness, and store policies.

Responsibilities

• Sort apparel into boutique, salable, and salvage categories and place salable items on hangers for the sales floor.
• Tag, size, and transport apparel as needed to maintain orderly displays.
• Perform quality checks for tears, stains, odors, or broken zippers and report issues.

Job description

If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability, contact this employer to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

Salary Range: $12.50 To $12.50 Hourly

• 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.