What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Associate Jacksonville Outlet Full Time position at Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries?
A member of the Outlet Store team who takes direction from the Outlet Store manager in performing the day-to-day activities of the Outlet Store operations. Stocks merchandise and performs cash register transactions, required to be customer focused, operate with minimum supervision and understand business demands. Performs processing functions from donated textile / hard goods, ensuring quality textile/wares are provided to LLGI retail stores.
Retail Operations/ Warehouse and Salvage
- Expedite the flow of materials between the processing, storage, dock areas and salvage
- Ensure security and loss prevention for each item by following procedures
- Stay abreast of position-related knowledge including brand names
- Maintain clean and organized work area, assist with trash and salvage removal
- Monitor and recognize security, loss prevention and safety risks and assist in their prevention
- Participate in required training
- Contribute to team success by involving others in work processes, decisions and actions
- Performs all cash register transactions accurately
- Maintain outlet store stock level and cash register according to standard
- Follow general housekeeping standards
- Understand and achieve quotas to meet sales goals
- Follow outlet store procedures, ensure high quality output and take actions to correct quality problems
- Effectively manage time to ensure that work is completed efficiently
- Assume responsibility and accountability for the completion of job duties
- Contribute to team success by involving others in work processes, decisions and actions
- Place salvage products into proper containers for placement on sales floor.
- Effectively process all salvage to meet specifications before transferring to warehouse
- The ability to work in a team environment
Education, Experience and Credentials
- Basic math skills
- Work in a light industrial/warehouse environment with exposure to heat and cold
- Subject to exposure to allergens including dirt, dust, mold, metals, rubber, plastics, latex, and pet hair
- Lift or move up to fifty (50) pounds of clothing and house wares safely on and off retail shelving fixtures up to ten (10) feet high, clothing racks four (4) feet high, and z-racks six (6) feet high
- Push and pull z-racks holding up to one-hundred (100) pieces of clothing and weighing a minimum of 150 pounds
- Bend and reach into gaylords five (5) feet high to remove clothing and house wares
- Manual dexterity to fasten and unfasten buttons; snaps and zippers; operate cash registers and tagging guns. Stands for long periods of time throughout the day
- Ability to perform a combination of tasks for extended periods such as stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, lifting, reaching, carrying, pushing or pulling objects in order to sort and hang clothing, and place housewares on shelves and racks
- Demonstrate visual acuity to evaluate donated items for quality
- Ability to identify smells to evaluate donations for undesirable odors - mold, must, dust, bodily fluids and/or urine
- Possess tactile ability in order to evaluate quality of clothing (e.g., pilling, damp/wet)
At Land of Lincoln Goodwill, we offer a variety of benefits to our employees. For more information on what LLGI offers, please click on this link: http://llgi.org/careers/benefits/ . Land of Lincoln Goodwill is also a drug free workplace and equal opportunity employer. All positions offered are subject to a pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check.
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