Store Operations Associate(s) - Cincinnati Metro Area

Morris Furniture Company, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Morris Furniture Company, Inc. is seeking a Store Operations Associate to represent the Ashley HomeStore brand in our showroom locations.

You will help with visual merchandising, move furniture and accessories on the sales floor, and assist customers with pickups while maintaining a clean, safe store environment. Key duties include reading store layout plans, verifying merchandise arrivals in our system, prepping floors with the Visual Merchandiser, assembling or tagging furniture, loading when

Qualifications

• Safety-conscious approach to all activities.
• Driver’s license in good standing, with the ability to travel to multiple store locations when needed.
• Ability to safely lift 50 pounds while loading/unloading furniture and operating powered equipment, hand trucks, carts, and other devices.
• Work as a part of a cooperative team where the members may change frequently.
• Ability to assemble furniture and other merchandise.
• Ability to quickly move your hands and arms to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects when handling, installing, positioning, or moving furniture.
• Experience working with/around powered equipment, warehouse machinery, and hand/power tool preferred.

Responsibilities

• Reads CADs (store layout design maps), work orders, shipping orders, and/or follows verbal/written instructions from Visual or General Manager.
• Verifies arrival of merchandise to the store using company software to confirm inventory accuracy.
• In partnership with Visual Merchandiser, prepares selling floor prior to arrival of truck to allow delivery drivers to place new goods in proper location based on provided floor plans.
• Adjusting spot lights for best visual effect which requires utilizing a Lift or standing on an 8 - 12 foot ladder
• Un-boxes, assembles, places and makes minor repairs to furniture and attaches identifying tags or labels to materials in cooperation with other departments
• Transports, loads, and unloads merchandise to designated areas utilizing hand trucks, carts, dollies, skates and other appropriate devices
• Provides customer pick-up assistance, including using company software to verify order details and providing appropriate customer service during this process
• Provides daily cleaning & sanitizing – including restrooms, common areas, front windows & doors, exterior entrance and parking lot, trash removal and other areas of the store
• Identifies safety opportunities and is aware of and responsible for following all safety processes, including proper PPE requirements that may exist
• Store maintenance to include painting walls
• Tagging merchandise
• Providing customer and showroom support to include answering phones
• Other duties may be assigned as business needs require

Skills

Safety conscious

Driver's license

Teamwork

Furniture assembly

Lift 50 lbs

Powered equipment experience

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Hand trucks

Carts

Powered equipment

Job description

Store Operations Associate

Our Values

At Morris Furniture Company, our values represent our distinctive core beliefs-the Morris way of doing business. Our Mission is “Making Homes Great” and we bring our mission to life through our values of: Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity, and FUN!

Purpose

The Store Operations Associate is responsible for appropriately representing the Morris Furniture Co., Inc (and Ashley HomeStore) brand in a manner that positively represents the company, our fine furniture, and attracts customers in our showroom locations. The Store Operations Associate may be assigned to various responsibilities including but not limited to, visual merchandising and movement of furniture and accessories on the sales floor, general cleaning & sanitizing of common areas, customer pick-up assistance, inventory cycle counting, tagging, painting and other general store maintenance duties as well as answering phones, interacting with customers.

General Description of Duties

• Reads CADs (store layout design maps), work orders, shipping orders, and/or follows verbal/written instructions from Visual or General Manager
• Verifies arrival of merchandise to the store using company software to confirm inventory accuracy
• In partnership with Visual Merchandiser, prepares selling floor prior to arrival of truck to allow delivery drivers to place new goods in proper location based on provided floor plans.
• Adjusting spot lights for best visual effect which requires utilizing a Lift or standing on an 8 - 12 foot ladder
• Un-boxes, assembles, places and makes minor repairs to furniture and attaches identifying tags or labels to materials in cooperation with other departments
• Transports, loads, and unloads merchandise to designated areas utilizing hand trucks, carts, dollies, skates and other appropriate devices
• Provides customer pick-up assistance, including using company software to verify order details and providing appropriate customer service during this process
• Provides daily cleaning & sanitizing – including restrooms, common areas, front windows &doors, exterior entrance and parking lot, trash removal and other areas of the store
• Identifies safety opportunities and is aware of and responsible for following all safety processes, including proper PPE requirements that may exist
• Store maintenance to include painting walls
• Tagging merchandise
• Providing customer and showroom support to include answering phones
• Other duties may be assigned as business needs require

Qualifications

• Safety conscious approach to all activities
• Driver’s license in good standing, with the ability to travel to multiple store locations when needed
• Ability to safely lift 50 pounds while loading/unloading furniture and operating powered equipment, hand trucks, carts, and other devices
• Work as a part of a cooperative team where the members may change frequently
• Ability to assemble furniture and other merchandise
• Ability to quickly move your hands and arms to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects when handling, installing, positioning, or moving furniture
• Experience working with/around powered equipment, warehouse machinery, and hand/power tool preferred

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Positive working attitude

Work Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, see, bend, twist, and lift 50 pounds. The employee will be required to unpack product from shipping boxes, assemble products and move to appropriate showroom location for display.

This job description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employees.