Produce Assistant - Full-Time

Wadsworth Buehler's Fresh Foods; Clark Corners (OH); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Wadsworth Buehler's Fresh Foods is seeking a Produce Assistant to serve as the Hourly Lead in the Produce Department. The role includes supervising the backroom and production, coordinating 35+ hours weekly with nights and weekends, and collaborating with full-time and part-time helpers to maintain fresh, organized stock.

Responsibilities cover ordering, receiving, inventory, rotation, trimming, packaging, sanitation, and housekeeping, along with scheduling and staff evaluations, plus strong

Qualifications

• Previous Produce prep, merchandising, and sales floor experience required.

Responsibilities

• Operate total department functions in Produce, including backroom supervision and production.
• Order, receive, and check-in perishable and non-perishable merchandise.
• Maintain cooler organization, product rotation, and inventory control.
• Assist with trimming, packaging, sanitation, and housekeeping.
• Handle departmental scheduling and performance evaluations; address employee relations.
• Provide customer service on the sales floor.

Skills

Produce experience

Staff supervision

Customer service

Job description

Produce Assistant: Hourly Lead Person in the Produce Department and responsible for total department operation including direct supervision of its backroom and production.This person's primary duties include working with both Full Time and Part Time Helpers and include ordering, receiving and checking-in perishable and non-perishable merchandise, cooler organization, product rotation, inventory [Back stock Control], trimming, packaging, sanitation, and housekeeping.Additional responsibilities include departmental scheduling, performance evaluations and employee relation issues.Secondary duties assume related activities as required including customer service on the sales floor.

1. Availability: Must be available to be scheduled 35+hrs a week, including nights and weekends, based on department needs.
2. Previous Experience: Previous Produce prep, merchandising, and sales floor experience required.
3. Physical Demands: Repetitive lifting, bending, stooping, pulling, pushing and carrying to 50#; occasional lifting and carrying to 80# -- this is a very physical job.

Other Considerations: Responsible, team-oriented, organized, productive, having outstanding customer relations and leadership skills, able to work with co-workers in a positive manner, reliable, dependable, on time and rarely absent, and able to work with minimal supervision.