Produce Sales Associate

Weis Markets; Havre de Grace (MD); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending accounts

Short term disability

Basic life and AD&D

401(k) retirement savings plans

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Pet insurance

Job summary

Weis Markets in Havre de Grace, MD, is seeking an associate for the produce department to keep shelves stocked, greet customers, and handle requests with a friendly, professional approach.

Responsibilities include stocking, rotating stock for freshness, pricing signage, maintaining displays, and supporting sanitation per health and safety standards. Training provided for additional tasks. Paid hourly with benefits available.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, the associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation.
• Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED). No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise. Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition and correctly priced with signage. Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
• Assists in building attractive displays and completes necessary product logs. Handles spoiled and damaged products, new items, and discontinued items according to policy.
• Maintains sanitation, follows cleaning schedules, and ensures work areas meet health/OSHA requirements. Disposes of trash properly.
• Minimizes shrink and reports shortages/overages to manager. May assist with receiving/unloading/delivery checks with training provided.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other duties if trained.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities? That's WEIS!

Location Address

943 Pulaski Highway

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
• Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise. Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness. Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage. Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
• Assists in building attractive displays. Accurately completes necessary product logs. Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
• Responsible for general sanitation in the department. Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements. Disposes of trash properly.
• Assists in minimizing shrink and controlling damages. Reports shortages and overages to manager.
• May assist with receiving, unloading, checking‑in, breaking‑down, and storing deliveries through operation of power jack or hand jack if properly trained. Training provided.
• May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained. Training provided.
• Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co‑workers and superiors. Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
• Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
• May also be called upon to assist in other departments.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position currently has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, the associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required: Completed or working towards a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED). No prior experience required.

Rate Of Pay And Benefits

The hourly pay for this position starts at $15.00 and is up to $22.00. Weis Markets offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package such as health plan, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, short term disability, basic life and AD&D, group whole life with long term care rider, and voluntary insurance such as hospital indemnity, accident and critical illness, 401(k) retirement savings plans, scholarship program and associate discount programs, auto and home insurance, employee assistance program, pet insurance, purchasing power, ID theft protection, legal services, paid time off, sick pay and quarterly incentive based on eligibility and criteria specific to the position is met.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.