POSITION TITLE: Produce Lead
REPORTS TO: Manager of Produce & Store Director

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
In the absence of a department manager, responsible for off-shift operations of the produce department. Supervises the department to ensure an unprecedented shopping experience for the customer and to promote sales by focusing on quality and freshness.

COMPANYWIDE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Follows all company and department policies and standard operating procedures.
2. Complies with federal and state regulations.
3. Encourages teamwork through cooperative interactions with co-workers.
4. Adheres to all cleaning and sanitation guidelines.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
1. Ensures proper shift coverage by calling in additional staff to cover call-ins and by managing employee breaks based on customer traffic.
2. Ensures opening or closing procedures are followed according to the standard operating procedures (SOP’s).
3. Walks the sales floor to ensure outstanding customer shopping experience.
4. Oversees that backrooms are in order according to standard procedures.
5. Provides the manager on duty with final nightly check out.
6. In absence of department manager, responsible for ensuring all receiving procedures are adhered to appropriately.
7. In absence of department manager, ensures all price changes and in store transfers occur in a timely fashion.
7. Ensures that all products are culled daily to promote quality and freshness for sale. Ensures removal and disposal of unsellable product from the sales floor.
8. Ensures proper cold chain procedure is adhered to at all times; this includes delivery to the store, storage, stocking, and holding on the sales floor.
9. Follows all merchandising guidelines, including display models, signage, and product packaging.
10. Performs stocking duties, ensuring correct placement of stock and refilling of displays.
11. Performs cutting, wrapping, and preparation of greens and fruit baskets.

QUALIFICATIONS
Requires high school diploma or general education degree; one to three years retail experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals in order to read financial reports. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

WORKING CONDITIONS & FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Work is performed in a retail store environment where there is regular exposure to cold temperatures and wet surfaces. The noise level is moderate, consistent with a retail store environment, and does include occasional noise of power tools and equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, turn, kneel, reach, squat, and stoop/bend. This position requires frequent lifting/carrying of 5 to 80 lbs., pushing/pulling 200 to 2000 lbs., as well as occasional crawling, climbing ladders, and walking on uneven ground. This position requires regular use of equipment such as knives, pallet jack, forklift, flatbed, box cutter, and pricing gun. Unlimited shift availability is required in order to cover both AM and PM shifts where a manager or assistant department manager is not working.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE:
The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations or the work environment change.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.65 - $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Shift:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Morning shift

Weekly day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Customer service: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Oconomowoc, WI 53066: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person