PRODUCE MANAGER

Socket.dev; Leakesville (MS); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Houchens Food Group in Leakesville, MS is seeking a Produce Manager to lead the produce department, manage daily work assignments, and ensure product quality and freshness. You will supervise staff, maintain inventory, and enforce safety policies while meeting profitability goals.

Responsibilities include ordering, stocking, pricing, and coordinating with stores to optimize product movement and minimize waste. Strong leadership and English communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Leads and assigns daily tasks to produce department staff.
• Adheres to company guidelines on interviewing, hiring, training, and evaluating personnel.
• Fluent English communication required for team and customer interactions.

Responsibilities

• Achieves desired gross profit and productivity targets.
• Projects sales, product movement, and labor needs.
• Receives and unloads deliveries and prepares schedules.
• Maintains merchandise, prices, and shelf life with proper rotation.
• Ensures safety, cleanliness, and equipment operation.

Skills

Leadership

People management

English fluency

Tools

Pricing label gun

Job description

Description

PRODUCE MANAGER

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• 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.

SECONDARY JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Maintains a neat and clean work area.
• Performs all essential job functions at an acceptable level of speed and accuracy.
• Ability to lift and move items weighing over 50 pounds
• Other Duties as assigned

JOB STANDARDS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Follows dress code.
• Follows written and oral instructions.
• Follows established safety policies and procedures.
• Works well with others.
• Speak English fluently.
• Ability to legibly write or print
• Eyesight corrected to 20/20.
• Hearing corrected to normal range.
• Possess full range of motion on shoulders, arms, hands, legs and feet.

Houchens Food Group is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, or pregnancy. Applicants may request accommodations based on religious beliefs, disability, or pregnancy.

Subject to pre-employment background and drug screening.