Position Description

Job Title                                                                  Department Assistant

Sep-24

FLSA Status – Non Exempt                                                                                       

Summary

Assists assigned departments—reports to the assistant store manager or the immediate supervisor.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supplies the store with merchandise by sorting, packaging, and occasionally pricing donations for assigned departments.
• Displays merchandise in designated areas on the sales floor.
• Performs responsibilities of various departments when Pricer is absent.
• Assures production department is clean and materials are stocked.
  • Cleans personal work area daily to remove dust and damaged goods.
• Keeps sales floor shoppable by ragging, balancing, and rotating seasonal merchandise.
• Performs other duties and special assignments as directed, including assignments that may be outside the primary area of employment.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability

• Ability to recognize merchandise quality and price it competitively.
• Ability to make decisions about merchandise quality, whether merchandise is saleable, and when to reduce prices to sell merchandise.
• Ability to interact effectively with customers.
• Ability to present a positive Company image and be courteous to customers
• Ability to work as a productive member of a team.

Education and/or Experience Required

• Experience working with a diverse workforce.
• Ability to work with individuals possessing developmental disabilities.
• Ability to use good judgment.
• Energy to take on fast-paced work.
• Good listener.

Physical Demands    

• Works inside a production and retail environment.
• Exposure to temperature fluctuations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, hear, stand, and move throughout the store.
• Use upper body strength to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds frequently.
• Must be able to push or pull clothing racks weighing up to 15 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently uses a hand stapler to staple price tags to garments.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to dust from donations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee constantly stands, bends, stoops, and walks.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to lift the arms at shoulder height or above.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The qualifications, working environment, and physical demands described above represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform basic functions.

• Works inside a production and retail environment.
• Exposure to temperature fluctuations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, hear, stand, and move throughout the store.
• Use upper body strength to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds frequently.
• Must be able to push or pull clothing racks weighing up to 15 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently uses a hand stapler to staple price tags to garments.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to dust from donations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee constantly stands, bends, stoops, and walks.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to lift the arms at shoulder height or above.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The qualifications, working environment, and physical demands described above represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform basic functions.

Salary : $15 - $16