PRODUCE SHIFT LEADER (46536)

Overall Compensation & Benefits:

- Medical, Dental, & Vision insurance packages - FT employees

- 401k plan – Employer matching

- Paid time off accruals

- 20% Employee discount

- Free Box Items for employees

- Performance reviews (60-day, 6-month, Annual)

- Quarterly Bonus*

- Happy Hour Bonus*

- Birthday Bonus*

*For more information, please contact us, and we will be happy to answer any questions about this benefit.

General Purpose:   To provide excellent service to Jimbo’s customers by ensuring the daily operations of the Produce Department run smoothly, and through outstanding leadership, teambuilding, and supervision of the Produce staff while maintaining a clean and safe work environment.

Essential Duties:

- Perform all Produce Clerk duties as well as additional supervisory duties listed below.

- Proactively assist customers within the guidelines outlined in our Customer Service Standards and ensure that the Produce staff members are doing the same.

- Represent Jimbo’s and store management by assuming ownership of the Produce Department’s operations in the absence of the Produce Manager.

- Assist with key human resource functions by enforcing all store/department policies, minimizing overtime, training new employees, monitoring staff breaks, and completing documentation in a timely manner (i.e., one on one meetings, feedback for performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, and terminations).

- Assist Produce Manager in department development and succession training.

- Supervise Produce staff members, delegate tasks and constructively address performance issues.

- Prepare a daily list of Produce tasks, ensuring completion in a timely manner.

- Ensure all products meet quality standards through proper rotation and by only selling fresh products.

- Assist Produce Manager with display changes and ensure proper Department signage.

- Maintain inventory control (including ordering) as directed by Produce Manager.

- Communicate any suggestions, concerns, questions, and customer feedback to the Produce Manager in a timely manner.

Other Responsibilities:

- Assist with quarterly inventories as needed.

- Assist other team members in achieving the goals of the department and the store.

- Attend scheduled Department meetings and all store meetings.

- Know store layout/product location to refer the customer to the appropriate aisle when asked.

- Adhere to and enforce all Produce Department and Store policies as outlined by the Produce Manager, Staff Member Handbook and Injury and Illness Prevention Plan.

Work Environment:

- Ability to work under a variety of conditions and temperatures, wet and dry, for extended periods of time.

- Ability to work safely with knives and equipment in the produce department.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

- Ability to understand and follow Department of Health regulations and needs to complete Food Handler’s Certificate within 10 days of employment.

- Strong knowledge of Produce Department operations.

- Strong communication and organizational skills.

- Strong time management skills with the ability to handle several tasks at once.

- Leadership and team-building skills with the ability to coach, motivate, supervise, delegate, and constructively address performance issues.

- Ability to travel and/or transfer to other store locations.

Physical Demands:

- Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs throughout any assigned shift unassisted.

- Ability to push/pull a loaded produce cart throughout any assigned shift unassisted.

- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time.

- Ability to climb and balance on a step stool/ladder.

- Ability to stoop, kneel and crouch.

- Ability to sustain repetitive arm and hand motion.

- Ability to reach above shoulders and horizontally to stock and retrieve inventory.