Job Description

Store Associate

To provide a clean and safe store environment. To maintain cleanliness and sanitation standards in a safe manner throughout the store and perform other functions as required in other departments within the store while maintaining great customer service.

Starting pay: $15.40 per hour.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Flexibility to work up to eight (8) hour days; Monday through Friday; weekends if scheduled.
• Must be able to operate computers and hand-held scanning machines.
• Must be extremely detail oriented; accuracy and attention to detail is imperative.
• Must be able to read, write and speak English proficiently.
• Must have the ability to understand and follow English directions.
• Self-motivated individual with strong organizational skills, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work with people of various backgrounds, personality traits and levels of authority to accomplish department and company goals.
• Successful completion of pre-employment/promotion drug screen and criminal background check. (Timeline must fall within company guidelines.)

Responsibilities

• Maintain weekly maintenance report by performing audits including, but not limited to, the following:
• New Items ensuring new items on the shelf have the proper price tag displayed.
• Price Changes (Ups/Downs and New Lower Prices) following procedure to ensure proper pricing on items.
• Discontinued Product properly identify on the shelf what items are flagged to be discontinued.
• Deleted Product remove deleted items from the shelf in all departments.
• Perform weekly ad checks ensuring all items in the weekly flyer scan as advertised, are properly displayed, have correct signage and scan correctly.
• Ensure daily that all price scanners and printers in the store are operational.
• Separate, sort and distribute weekly shelf tags to appropriate departments.
• Perform a weekly aisle scan ensuring all merchandise is properly tagged and scanning correctly.
• Ensure that store signage standards are maintained.
• Check date codes, ensuring proper rotation per company guidelines. Remove and scan out any out of code product on the shelf.
• Notify the store manager or assistant store manager of potential shrink problems (damaged or missing merchandise), out-of-stock situations, potential security problems and customer requests/complaints.
• Notify merchandising systems department personnel of any pricing or item issues found using appropriate forms.
• Ensure all store personnel inform scanning clerk of pricing problems, tag issues or item data issues.
• Scan items in need of replacement tags. Create and print out tag batches using the sign system hanging all replacement tags.
• Create signage when needed.
• File and maintain copies of logs, reports and forms at store level for documented timeframes.
• Ensure all shelves and displays are blocked and straightened after rotating a section.
• Clean shelves when needed.
• Attend meetings when needed.
• Other duties as assigned by the store manager, assistant store manager or the company.
• Practice the "Golden Rule" and work with all associates as a team.
• Work in a style that is respectful, supportive, and team-oriented (RSTO).

Minimum knowledge, skills and qualifications required:

• Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be able to operate computers.
• Must have experience working with handhelds and front-end registers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to identify and correct problems.
• Must have a sense of urgency.

Physical Demands: (per work day)

Physical Demands: (per work day) Never (N) 0% Occasionally (O) 1-33% Frequently (F) 34-66% Continuously (C) 67-100%

1. Standing: C surface type: tile/concrete

2. Walking: C surface type: tile/concrete

3. Carrying: F up to 40 lbs.

4. Pushing: F up to 200 lbs.

5. Lifting: F up to 40 lbs.

6. Pulling: O up to 200 lbs.

7. Reaching: C level: waist/overhead

8. Climbing: O up to 10 ft.

9. Sitting: O

10. Bending: O

11. Balancing: F

12. Stooping: C

13. Kneeling: F

14. Crouching: F

15. Handling: C

16. Fingering: C

17. Feeling: C

18. Crawling: O

19. Talking: C

20. Seeing: C

21. Hearing: C

22. Smelling: O

Job location: (place where work is performed) Retail store locations.

Work conditions: Environment involved is inside outside cold heat wet/humidity.

Safety risk factors: Never (N) 0% Occasionally (O) 1-33% Frequently (F) 34-66% Continuously (C) 67-100%

1. Loud noise O

2. Twisting of back and neck F

3. Slippery floor surface O

4. Cluttered floor surface O

5. Hazardous equipment (mechanical moving parts) O

6. Contact with sharp objects O

7. Contact with skin irritant O

8. Toxic exposure (see material safety data sheet) O

9. Nuisance dust, fumes, sprays O

10. Hazardous cleaning solutions O

Schedule: varied day evenings weekends holidays.

Machines, tools, equipment, etc Computers, front end terminals, scanning system, price scanners and printers, scales, hand-held machines, copy machines, and printers.

The above is intended to describe the essential and supplemental functions of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of all supplemental duties, responsibilities or non-essential requirements.

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