Job Description
Overview
Prepared Foods Production Team Member (Deli / Culinary Prep) - Full Time
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This range is provided by Whole Foods Market. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range
$19.00/hr - $25.40/hr
Responsibilities
- Performs all functions related to preparation, counter service, sanitation, and stocking of products.
- Assists with production for all Prepared Foods venues.
- Ensures all prepared foods are properly labeled, dates, initialed, covered, and rotated.
- Ensures product meets WFM guidelines for quality and preparation.
- Documents waste and spoilage using appropriate forms.
- Ensures product production is performed using correct measuring devices and all recipes are followed.
- Helps customers understand the difference between WFM products and products at conventional stores.
- Ensures that walk-ins and freezers are kept clean and well-organized.
- Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
- Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
- Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
- Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
- Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
- Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
- Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Thorough product knowledge.
- Ability to make an adequate number of recipes per shift based on batch size.
- Capable of accessing information about market conditions and communicating it to customers.
- Understands spoilage and supply waste and how it affects department profits.
- Working knowledge and application of all merchandising expectations within the department.
- Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
- Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
- Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.
- Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.
- Passion for natural foods and the mission of Whole Foods Market.
- Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency.
- Understanding of and compliance with WFM quality goals.
Desired Work Experiences
- No prior retail experience required.
Physical Requirements / Working Conditions
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
- In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours.
- Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
- Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
- Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
- Exposure to temperatures: below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Ability to work in wet and dry conditions.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
- Ability to use tools and equipment, including knives, box cutters, electric pallet jacks, and other heavy machinery.
- May require use of ladders.
Note
The wage range for this position is $19.00-$25.40 Hourly, commensurate with experience. Whole Foods Market offers benefits. Eligibility for benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable plan at date of hire. This notice is a summary and may not reflect all job duties or requirements. Completion of certain milestones or qualifications does not guarantee promotion.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Whole Foods Market is an equal opportunity employer. We hire and promote individuals solely on qualifications for the position and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Job details
- Seniority level: Entry level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Management and Manufacturing
- Industries: Retail
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Job Tags
Hourly pay, Full time, Work experience placement, Immediate start, All shifts, Flexible hours, Shift work, Night shift,