Produce Department Operations Lead

Houchens Food Group; Huntington (WV); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Houchens Food Group is seeking a Produce Department employee to project sales, coordinate product movement and labor, and handle ordering and receiving truck deliveries. You will set daily priorities for the team, ensure compliance with guidelines on personnel matters, records, and schedules, and maintain product pricing and shelf life standards.

The role requires strong teamwork, ability to lift up to 50 pounds, and adherence to safety and dress code policies.

Qualifications

• Speak English fluently.
• Follows dress code.
• Follows safety policies and procedures.
• Works well with others.
• Eyesight corrected to 20/20.
• Hearing corrected to normal range.
• Possess full range of motion on shoulders, arms, hands, legs and feet.

Responsibilities

• Achieves desired gross profit.
• Achieves desired level of productivity.
• Projects sales, product movement, labor needs.
• Orders product according to established guidelines.
• Receives and unloads truck deliveries using available equipment and according to established guidelines.
• Establishes daily work assignments and priorities for produce department personnel.
• Follows established guidelines in all personnel issues, interviewing, hiring, training, performance evaluation, discipline, discharge, etc.
• Follows established guidelines for completion of all required forms, records, reports and verify receipts.
• Prepares weekly work schedules according to established guidelines.
• Stocks and straightens merchandise and supplies.
• Using pricing/label gun, marks each item with the correct selling price.
• Rotates merchandise according to anticipated shelf life/product expiration dates.
• Performs basic housekeeping duties using available equipment, (mops, brooms, floor scrubbing and buffing machines, etc.).
• Operates all required tools and equipment in a safe manner except when restricted due to age.
• Ability to lift and move items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Ensure coolers and cases maintain appropriate temperatures
• Ability to work in temperature extremes, (produce cooler maximum low temperature, 32 degrees).
• Standing and/or walking at a rapid pace for extended periods of time to perform essential job functions.

Skills

Projects sales

Product movement

Labor needs

Orders product

Receives and unloads

Daily work assignments

Hiring

Training

Performance evaluation

Discipline

Safety policies

Dress code

Fluent English

Job description

Houchens Food Group is seeking a Produce Department employee to project sales, coordinate product movement and labor, and handle ordering and receiving truck deliveries. You will set daily priorities for the team, ensure compliance with guidelines on personnel matters, records, and schedules, and maintain product pricing and shelf life standards.

The role requires strong teamwork, ability to lift up to 50 pounds, and adherence to safety and dress code policies.