Seafood Department Associate

Job Description

About Weis Markets

Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities? That’s WEIS!

Location

7801 Glenlivet West Drive

Seafood Department Associate

As a Seafood Department Associate at Weis Markets, you will be instrumental in maintaining a fresh, appealing, and well-stocked seafood department to meet our customers’ needs. This role involves direct customer interaction, meticulous product handling, ensuring department sanitation, and supporting overall store operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Service Excellence: Keep the seafood area well stocked and visually appealing. Greet customers warmly, offer suggestions, provide information on seafood preparation, take orders for future delivery, and assist with special requests. Resolve customer concerns promptly and courteously.
• Merchandising and Product Management: Set up attractive product displays and rotate merchandise as needed. Ensure all seafood is fresh, in saleable condition, and accurately priced with proper signage. Handle spoiled, damaged, or close-to-expiration products according to company procedures and remove any non-saleable items to maintain high quality standards.
• Product Preparation and Handling: Accurately weigh and wrap merchandise for customers, applying stickers showing the correct price and weight. Maintain necessary logs to track product freshness and quality. Adhere strictly to all food safety and personal safety codes when handling products or utilizing kitchen tools.
• Department Sanitation: Responsible for the general cleanliness and sanitation of the department. Follow established cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure work areas, equipment, counters, and display cases are consistently well-maintained, clean, and compliant with all health and OSHA requirements. Dispose of trash properly.
• Inventory Control: Assist the manager in controlling inventory through proper ordering practices. Help minimize losses by promptly returning products to refrigeration. Report any shortages or overages to the manager.
• Material Handling (Training Provided): May assist with receiving, unloading, checking-in, breaking-down, and storing deliveries. This may involve the operation of a power jack or hand jack if properly trained.
• Store Support (Training Provided): May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if proper training has been provided.
• Teamwork and Performance: Contribute to the smooth function of the department and store by cooperating effectively with co-workers and superiors. Continuously strive to improve job performance.
• Safety Compliance: Responsible for the utilization of all company-provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to cut-resistant gloves, safety cutters, and company-sponsored footwear.
• Cross-Departmental Support: May be called upon to assist in other departments as needed to support overall store operations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position currently has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, the Associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:

• Education and Experience: Completed or working towards a high school diploma or general education degree (GED). No prior experience is required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.