At Woods Supermarket, the teammates’ role is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity. Teammates gain life experience that goes far beyond just serving great products in a friendly and fun environment. Woods Supermarket is an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are looking for hard-working, team-oriented, friendly, and honest people. Perks of being a Woods Supermarket Teammate include flexible hours, competitive pay, teammate discount, and a positive atmosphere!
Successful Teammates will conduct themselves in a positive attitude and truthful character demonstrating D>E service and our Hospitality 4 culture.

Job Title: Seasonal Center Store Teammate

Description: This position is offered for the 2023 lake season and is not guaranteed to be a permanent position beyond the summer season. Our center store teammates ensure proper presentation of merchandise on store shelves and displays, while providing friendly assistance to guests.
Responsibilities:
To greet, respond to questions, and explain store policies too all guests in a courteous manner.
To prepare the back room for receipt of merchandise, unload trucks and sort cases according to aisle or pallet.
To clean store floors, check-lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot, and shelves, while safely using cleaning equipment and chemicals.
To load stocking carts and pallets, transport cases to sales floor, match the case strip to the shelf tag or stock, place merchandise in the designated area, and "face" the front row of each display.
To assure the safety of self, guests and teammates by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a supervisor of any potential hazard immediately.
Remove all broken containers, packing materials, boxes, and trash from the sales floor or guests’ pathway immediately.
To understand the operation, safety requirements and restraints of a baler, case cutter, pallet jack and fork lift (must be 18 years or older to operate the pallet jack, forklift, baler, and cutters).
To count and record individual items of merchandise for inventory.
To manually price mark/label merchandise without an UPC code.
To move damaged, unsalable or "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting the materials into bins for return to the damage reclaim center.
To use the proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to merchandise.
To remove trash from the aisle, operating the baler, put the compacted bale on a pallet and load salvage on to trucks.
To change signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers on the shelf display.
To assist cashier's by bagging and carry out merchandise when needed.
To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by supervisors and managers, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to guests during peak periods of business.

Task of the Job - This job generally includes:
Mobility:
Ability to lift up to 30 pounds frequently and 100 pounds occasionally
Ability to walk, stand, stoop, bend and reach repeatedly and for long periods of time
To move cases, cardboard, and packing material from truck to designated area or from the sales floor to overhead or backroom storage
Work on tile or concrete for a full shift
Move and stack empty pallets approximately 15 pallets high, using the proper equipment.
Grasp and handle wet, cold, hot, metal, paper, and plastic merchandise
Manipulate maintenance equipment handles and grasp knobs
Move stocking carts, pallet jacks, and maintenance equipment, using the proper equipment (must be 18 years or older)
Move to the top of ladders, cases, shelves, and stairs
Recognize cases, case cutter edge, case strips, shelf location, product size and description, guests, shelf tags, labels, stocking carts, packaging material , debris, aisle markers, and signs.
To bring shopping carts into the store from the parking lot, no more than five at a time.

Work Environment:
Inside work with extreme variations in temperature, dust, humidity from back door, compressors, cooler, and freezer. Stockers perform their duties primarily in the grocery department and in the back room. Outside may be required.

Qualifications:
Required
Basic mathematical ability (add, subtract, multiply, divide, count)
Able to give, receive complex verbal instructions, descriptions to and from supervisors and teammates concerning store or department policy and procedures and use of equipment.
The ability to read and write English
Make judgments concerning the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display (spatial relationship), case opening procedures and extent of unsalable product damage.
Able to open cases and stock so products will not be damaged.
Good interpersonal communication skills.
Preferred
High school diploma or equivalent.
A stable work and educational history
Prior experience in a related type of job.
Prior experience operating a baler, case cutter, cleaning/sanitation equipment, pallet jack and fork lift. (Must be 18 years or older to operate pallet jacks, baler, and forklift.)

Safety
The employee will not use drugs, alcohol, or create a direct threat to the health and safety of others on the job.

It is the policy of Woods Supermarket not to discriminate against any employee or any applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, handicap, sex, physical condition, developmental disability, or national origin.