Safeway Job Application – PRODUCE DEPARTMENT

Job Description:

To direct the operation of the produce department, including supervising and training personnel. Ensures customer service and product quality, freshness, safety and selection.

Job Responsibilities:

• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays. Controls shrink and expenses. Accurately completes and monitors daily log sheet, purchase report, and sales and labor and other required paperwork and logs. Maintains records on ad items movement.
• Ensures cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor and work area, cooler, equipment, wet boxes and cases.
• Assists with all produce duties such as: receiving, cleaning, trimming, cutting, watering and displaying.
• Orders, checks, receives and controls inventory to ensure adequate proper inventory level, product quality, eye appeal and freshness. Checks for and prevent the sale of out-dated or spoiled products. Takes periodic inventories, processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records. Maintains and organizes Produce Department work area and cooler.
• Assists customers by making product suggestions and engages in suggestive selling. Makes intercom announcements.
• Assists with implementing emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.
• Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies. Complies with all federal, state and local health and food safety standards.
• Ensures produce quality, freshness and quantity standards are met.
• Assists with answering and responding incoming calls appropriately. Receives and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to the Store Director as appropriate.
• Creates effective promotional and seasonal displays. Checks competitors for comparisons on prices, product variety and merchandising procedures.

Job Requirements:

• Must have knowledge of produce variety, standards, perishability, food safety, food handling and sanitation procedures and department policies and procedures.
• Requires knowledge of employment laws and workplace practices.
• Requires strong communication skills, good leadership and interpersonal skills, the proven ability to manage people and the ability to maintain composure in dealing with customers and co-workers.
• Requires working knowledge of all job duties within the Produce Department including trimming, cutting, displaying, watering, building produce displays, rotating and discarding outdated or spoiled product.
• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Produce Department policies and procedures. Requires the ability to judge and react to business activity.
• Frequently reaches, lifts, stacks and maneuvers objects of varying dimensions and

Job Details:

Company:  Safeway Careers

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Washington, DC, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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