Freight Crew Manager - Graveyard Shift

Wage Range: Up to $24.00 - depending on experience with provable hours or work sample

Benefits:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - 100% Company paid
• Daily Pay - Employee's option to work and get paid today
• 401K - Company matching up to 4% (if elected)
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance (no deductible medical option)
• Company paid Life Insurance for full time (30 hours)
• Voluntary Insurance Products
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Paid holidays
• Vacation Time
• Bereavement & Jury Duty pay
• Paid Sick & Safe Leave - Employees earn 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked
• Paid Family & Medical Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Essence of Position

To provide guidance and empowerment to Freight Crew associates, model how to prepare the store for our guests, actively engage guests, and ensure they receive unparalleled hospitality and professional service.

Shared Expectations for all roles within our company include, but are not limited to the following:

• Creating a welcoming atmosphere for everyone.
• Embracing Yoke's Core Values and Mission Statement as an integral part of your contribution to our team.
• Promoting Yoke's sales and company growth by patronizing Yoke's stores and representing our company in the community with a positive message.
• Participating enthusiastically with genuine care for our shared success, always remembering we are the owners of Yoke's.
• Responsible for supervising and coordinating the activities of workers in the overall stocking and freight handling function of the store.

Tasks of Position

The following are core and essential responsibilities of this position. Associates are responsible for completing any and all duties assigned as required for the successful operation of our business. All associates are required to perform their job duties in a manner which upholds the integrity and honesty of our company.

• Reporting for assigned shifts on time, and on a regular basis, capable of communicating clearly and demonstrating suitable physical abilities to safety perform assigned tasks and duties, prepared to provide excellent service and leadership.
• Promoting sales and exceptional service through active discussions with guests, offering product recommendations, samples, and discussing current promotions and service information while on the sales floor or in the check stand. (Examples while on the sales floor may include: ordering products for special requests, offering special deals on case orders, locating products for guests throughout the store). (Examples while in the check stand may include: asking guests if they need stamps or ice, chatting about Yoke's signature items, fresh board and sweet deal suggestions, or providing information on reusable bag rebates).
• Performing inventory, ordering merchandise, supplies, and equipment, comparing records with merchandise ordered, reporting discrepancies, and maintaining correct inventory levels.
• Directing, coordinating, and participating in unloading freight from trucks, breaking down mixed pallets and organizing for stocking, filling shelves, facing product, cleaning aisles, back room, or other work area, assuring any debris from stocking is remove promptly, inspecting stocked merchandise to ensure displays meet standards, recommending advertising display layouts, and additions or deletions of merchandise.
• Providing in-service training to all new personnel ensuring they learn exceptional guest service, special features of the grocery department, all equipment in a correct and safe manner including: com-line, phone, baler, box cutter, FM unit (handheld), pallet jack, six wheelers, symbol unit, cash register, and trash compactor, and all tasks to assure the successful operation of the freight department.
• Identifying and supporting the development of associates who show promise or interest in increased responsibility.
• Empowering associates to use "This One's On Us" cards to "Make Our Guests Crazy About Us!"
• Finding a way to make our guests happy.
• Ensuring all work performed in the department is completed in accordance with all local, state, federal and company rules, regulations, and policies regarding workplace safety and guest services.
• Participating actively in the Grocery Department's accident reduction plan including: cleaning floors, sanitizing, and recognizing shelf order, safety features of all machinery, store evacuation plan, robbery policy, case temperatures, and storing regulations.

Supervisory Responsibilities This position has supervisory responsibilities, and though many positions in our company are not supervisory, the following quote exemplifies our belief in leadership for all associates:

"Whether you are the president of a company or the janitor, the moment you step from independence into interdependence in any capacity, you step into a leadership role. You are in a position of influencing other people." - Stephen Covey

This position's supervisory responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Supervising, coordinating, and evaluating the…