Do you want more than just a job? You want to learn and grow and to give back to your community. You want a sense of fulfillment, a career, not just a job. Then you want Goodwill Industries of New Mexico (GINM), where the power of work can transform your life, and the lives of others. GINM is looking for an enthusiastic, career-minded Retail Associate to assist our customers and support our mission, which is to provide skills training, job placement and social services to New Mexicans. GINM is a second chance employer offering cross training in different departments and advancement opportunities. Your day-to-day responsibilities will consist of customer service, accepting donations, sorting and processing those donations, stocking the sales floor, cash register operations, just to name a few. Goodwill offers competitive pay and benefits, work-life balance, and the opportunity to make a difference. What are you waiting for? Apply today!
$13/hour, guaranteed 38 hours a week.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.
- Adherence to the attendance and punctuality policies of Goodwill
- Exhibit excellent customer service skills as related to your position.
- Maintain confidentiality of all privileged information.
- Performs other incidental and related duties as required and assigned.
- Exhibits a professional appearance and maintains a friendly, cheerful and courteous demeanor at all times.
- Responds to customer questions and issues in a friendly and courteous manner; contacts supervisor as needed.
- Provides efficient check-out to all customers; receives cash, credit cards etc. as payment for goods.
- Counts money to verify amounts, issues correct change, provides receipt for funds received, wraps and bags merchandise.
- Verifies cash register balances by comparing total on cash register with the amount of currency in register.
- Maintains work area in an organized manner.
- Promotes sales by setting up displays and organizing and arranging furniture and merchandise.
- Maintains merchandise on sales floor by stocking racks, counters, and displays with donated merchandise.
- Maintains cleanliness of store by cleaning shelves, counters and displays.
- Transports boxes, bins and crates to work areas; distributes items and salvage to appropriate areas; disposes of unsalable items.
- Responsible to process and price all incoming donations, including wares, books, shoes, furniture, etc.
- Maintains production levels; documents timely and accurately the number of items/bins processed.
- Reviews donations for quality; determines which items are routed to specific areas for further distribution.
- Accepts and receives donations and ensures they are recorded appropriately.
- Ensures donations area is secured at all times and protect donations from misuse.
- Operates material handling equipment.
- Attends and participates in regularly scheduled staff meetings.
- Observes behavior of customers entering operation; reports suspicious behavior to supervisor or security.
