Floor Care Associate

About the Role

Provides and maintains a clean and sanitary environment by ensuring all floor surfaces and restrooms are properly maintained. Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions. Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep sales floor, liquor store, offices, breakrooms, backrooms, training rooms, and restrooms orderly and free from safety hazards (70% of time).
• Operate floor care and department equipment and use associated tools and chemicals.
• Sweep and/or vacuum mats and rugs and return to original location.
• Remove spots from carpet.
• Dispose of trash.
• Perform restroom deep cleaning.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated to help build and retain customer confidence and loyalty (15% of time).
• Deliver daily conditions that meet the company’s expectations for clean and sanitary stores.
• Offer customers assistance in finding or suggesting product.
• Ensure company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, and productivity are maintained (15% of time).
• Adhere to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
• Execute all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access.
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspect and identify unsafe conditions to report to store management.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report all safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Ensure adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
• Cultivate a culture of safety within the store.
• Ensure self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training.
• Ensure Hazard Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required.
• Ensure equipment is in good repair; report and assist with remediation (e.g., lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Qualifications

• Required Education: High School / GED
• Preferred Education: High School / GED
• Required Language(s): English
• Preferred Language(s): Spanish
• Required Experience: 0 - 3 years supervisory experience
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Authorization to work in the United States or the ability to obtain the same.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Environmental Factors: Retail - General
• Physical Demands:
• Regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring.
• Utilize manual dexterity.
• Talk, see, hear, smell, and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet.
• Frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead.
• Carry, push, or lift various loads up to required weights.
• Occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 30 ft.
• Working Conditions: May be exposed to working in indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid working conditions.
• Safety Risk Factors:
• Frequently required to twist back and/or neck.
• Walk on a slippery or cluttered floor surface.
• Work with hazardous equipment.
• Be exposed to sharp objects.
• Occasionally required to be exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions, and other toxins.
• Overall Required Equipment: Cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment, such as racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts.
• Preferred Equipment: Baler/compactor, box cutter.
• Personal Protective Equipment: Goggles, Gloves, Back Brace.
• Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs.
• Lifting Requirement: 50 lbs.
• Shift(s): Varied shifts.