Grocery Associate FT

Key Responsibilities

• SERVICE (70%)
• Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated to help build and retain customer confidence and loyalty.
• Ensures the department is merchandised per plan.
• Delivers daily conditions that meet company expectations for at-shelf product availability, freshness, product rotation, inventory levels, stocking (including maintaining POG integrity and shelf price tags/signage), ordering, and cooler/freezer conditioning.
• Offers customers assistance in finding or suggesting product.
• LEADERSHIP (10%)
• Promotes trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job-specific information.
• Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
• FINANCIAL (10%)
• Maintains an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions and reports any discrepancies.
• Reviews/inspects products for quality and freshness and takes appropriate action.
• Ensures product is held at the proper temperature per food safety guidelines and retains documentation of temperature logs per policy.
• COMPLIANCE/SAFETY (10%)
• Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, and productivity are maintained.
• Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, USDA & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA).
• Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner, ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access.
• Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management.
• Notifies management of customer or employee accidents.
• Reports all safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations.
• Cultivates a culture of safety within the store.
• Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training.
• Ensures Hazardous 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.
• Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (e.g., lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Required Equipment:
• Cleaning supplies and equipment
• General office equipment
• Register
• Pricing gun
• Scales
• Scanner
• Various material handling equipment (e.g., racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts)
• Preferred Equipment:
• Baler/compactor
• Box cutter
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):
• Goggles
• Gloves
• Back Brace

Qualifications

• Required Education: High School / GED
• Preferred Education: Course of Study not specified
• Required Language(s): English
• Preferred Language(s): Spanish
• Relevant Experience: 0-3 years supervisory experience
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Must be 16 years of age or older.
• 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.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• 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 the required weights.
• Occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb up to 30 ft.
• Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs.
• Lifting Requirement: 50 lbs.
• 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, and 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.

Additional Information

• Shifts: Varied shifts.
• Associates under 18 are restricted from:
• Operating balers
• Operating compactors
• Using ladders
• Using restricted powered equipment
• Using knives beyond approved safety tools
• Any other activities restricted by applicable child labor laws
• All associates under 18 must comply with:
• Minor work hour restrictions detailed in applicable child labor laws.
• The Winn-Dixie Company's Minor Employment Policy.