Grocery Stocker Jobs

Job Summary

Maintains product levels and quality control in grocery department. Ensures products are displayed in accordance with Company standards and all regulatory food safety practices. Promotes customer service and sales building practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspects product for quality and maintains quality control and food safety standards.
• Collects empty cardboard boxes and other trash and places into bailer.
• Operates pallet jack to unload product from warehouse trucks and reloads trucks with return items.
• Maintains full stock conditions on grocery display racks and shelves.
• Provides friendly and customer service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and responding to customer complaints.
• Takes precautionary safety measures when using equipment and work tools.
• Ensures dated product is stocked, rotated, or discarded properly if unsold.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Assists fellow partners and customers by responding to price check questions and exchanging and/or locating product.
• Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures. Complies with all Company policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to operate manual or electric pallet jack.
• Ability to safely operate and maintain department equipment.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to handle objects gently to avoid damage to items, people, vehicles, and property.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods and processes.
• Ability to safely work with sharp objects such as knives, box cutters, etc.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Typically involves on-the-job training.
• Minimum of 18 years of age required.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Occasionally exposed to outside temperatures and weather.
• Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop or crawl.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Continuously required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Continuously required to bend, kneel or squat.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Occasionally exposed to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.
• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Occasionally exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.