Whole Foods Jobs – Seasonal Fairfield, CT – Produce Service Team Member

Job Description:

Provides support as a member of the Prepared Foods team to include preparation, counter service, sanitation, and stocking of products. All Whole Foods Market Retail jobs require ensuring a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and Team Members at all times. All positions must be performed in accordance with team and store Standard Operating Procedures. Further, Team Members must be prepared and able to perform the duties inherent in other Team Member job descriptions. Team Leaders are required to spend significant time on the floor, engaging with customers, and pitching in to help whenever and wherever needed. All positions must strive to support WFM core values and goals, promote national, regional, and store programs and initiatives, and ensure adherence to all applicable health and safety regulations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Checks in-stock product dates to ensure freshness and rotates when necessary.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.
• Completes spoilage, sampling, temperature, and sweep worksheets as required.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Cuts, prepares, and serves a variety of hot and cold foods, including meats, cheeses, sandwiches, burritos, wraps, salad, and pizza.
• Assists Team Leader in organizing and displaying volume and seasonal items.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
• Samples products to customers.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Stocks hot and cold cases and displays with prepared foods from kitchen, walk-in preparation, and refrigerators.
• Bails and consolidates recyclables.

Job Requirements:

• Passion for natural foods and the mission of Whole Foods Market.
• Ability to sell proactively.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency.
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Understanding of and compliance with WFM quality goals.
• Ability to learn basic knowledge of all products carried in department.
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.
• Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Qualification & Experience:

• Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
• Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
• Physical Requirements / Working Conditions
• Ability to work in wet and dry conditions.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Exposure to temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit.
• No prior retail experience required.
• Ability to use tools and equipment, including knives, box cutters, electric pallet jacks, and other heavy machinery.
• Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
• In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours.
• May require use of ladders.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Job Details:

Company: Whole Foods Market

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Other

Job Location: Fairfield, CT, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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