Supports the furniture and assigned store departments by sorting, pricing, packaging, displaying, and rotating donated merchandise. Maintains clean, stocked production areas and a shoppable sales floor, assists customers, evaluates merchandise quality, and performs other store assignments. Requires frequent standing, walking, bending, lifting, and moving merchandise in a retail and production environment.
Job Title Department Assistant Sep-24
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience Required
Physical Demands
FLSA Status – Non Exempt
SummaryAssists 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, which 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 in 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 frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- 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 is constantly standing, bending, stooping and walking.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to lift the arms 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 are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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