PRODUCE DEPARTMENT
Job Type: Full-time

Salary:
From $17.00 per hour
Benefits:
Employee discount, Retirement plan

Summary: Responsible for stocking and displaying fresh produce while providing prompt, friendly, helpful customer service to meet department goals for sales, margins, labor productivity, and customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Include the following: Other duties may be assigned.

Customer Service:

  • Assist customers in a prompt and courteous manner, exceeding expectations for service.

  • Providing customers with knowledgeable information about flavor, seasonality, usage, and sourcing of fruits and vegetables.

Quality:

  • Replenish displays daily by rotating and culling.

  • Prep produce to ensure best quality, presentation, and preservation.

  • Dispose of produce that is unsuitable for sale by giving to deli or throwing inedible product in compost.

  • Keep back stock produce stored properly.

  • Ordering and receiving daily produce deliveries.

Safety and Security:

  • Keep produce dry-storage, walk-in, and sales floor tidy and produce displays beautiful and fully stocked.

  • Use equipment safely. Advise manager of equipment repair and replacement needs.

Department Maintenance:

  • Keep well informed about products by asking questions, reading vendor/farmer updates, and tasting small samples of new produce.

  • Give constructive feedback to manager when necessary.

  • Perform other tasks as assigned by manager.

Responsibilities to Safety:

  • Protect the safety of self, co-worker's, and Dahlia & Sage Community Market patrons at all times.

  • Report any potentially harmful equipment or situations to the immediate supervisor without delay.

  • Report safety-related accidents and incidents at once to supervisor.

  • Follow all company and safety policies and procedures.

  • Operate equipment in a safe manner that will not lead to injury of self or others.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED certificate preferred. Prior experience in working with produce preferred; interest in learning about produce required.

Language Skills:

  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

  • Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees.

Mathematical Skills:

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

  • Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.

Reasoning Ability:

  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations.

  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or electronic form.

Computer Skills:
An individual should have knowledge of:

  • Internet software

  • Inventory software

  • Spreadsheet software

  • Word Processing software

Physical Demands: 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

  • Walk

  • Use hands and fingers

  • Handle or feel

  • Reach with hands and arms

  • Stoop

  • Kneel

  • Crouch or crawl

  • Talk or hear

  • Taste or smell

  • Use knives, blades, and scissors safely

  • The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds safely

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 exposed to a changes in temperature including wet and/or humid conditions; cold refrigerated environments, and risk of electrical shock.