Job Description
Job Description
ESSENTIAL EXPECTATIONS
Customer Service Expectations
Serving customers at Goodwill has never been more rewarding. Whether serving our guests with their shopping experiences, assisting someone in our community to better their life, or helping your fellow coworker to exceed, Goodwill is about reaching out and making a difference.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Expectations
Goodwill is committed to fostering a culture of dignity and trust where all individuals feel respected and valued. The sum of individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, background, education, unique capabilities, and talent converge to create an environment of inclusivity, equity, and excellence.
Safety Expectations
At Goodwill, safety is everyone’s job. Ensuring a workplace where people can grow and enrich themselves and others by giving can only happen if our environment is secure and safe.
Being compliant with safety rules, policies, procedures, and regulations, while assessing and eliminating workplace hazards, is essential to our business and delivering our mission.
POSITION EXPECTATIONS
Position Expectations
The Production Manager in Training is responsible for learning all aspects of the Production Manager role. The Production Manager in Training reports to the Store Manager and is responsible for all production goal tracking, quality and quantity checks as well as managing the retail production staff.
The position acts as a primary key holder and fills in for the Store Manager when out of the office.
Responsibilities
- Achieves daily, weekly, and monthly production goals for the store, reaching out to senior management when short on donations.
- Ensures every rack / cart of processed goods receives a quality, quantity review.
- Performs a salvage audit daily to ensure the quality of the donated goods on the floor and quality donations are not in salvage processing.
- Communicates with the store management team the Central Warehouse needs to ensure production and sales goals will be met.
- Sorts and ensures training for E-Commerce categories, brands, etc.
- Handles computer interaction for emails, reports, and other required communication to management.
- Trains and coaches new and existing staff to follow the Production Manual Guidelines, picture process maps (PPM’s), production metrics and pricing guidelines.
Holds staff accountable for meeting processing goals.
- Ensures quality customer service is presented and provided by team members in a timely and courteous manner to all customers, donors, and other team members.
- Ensures that store and surrounding premises are kept clean and free of safety hazards, and safety procedures are understood and followed by all store team members.
- Provides general Store Management when the Store Manager is out of the office.
- Collects all found money and donated jewelry daily and hands in daily. Processes necessary paperwork and subsequent functions.
- Completes other assignments or projects designated by store management team.
Education, Experience, and Requirements
- High school / GED completion preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of retail production supervisory experience preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years goal setting and tracking experience preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years handling salvage or similar type of audits preferred.
- Team Members in this position may be required to travel at a moment’s notice or be transferred to other Goodwill retail stores, based on business operational needs.
- Must be able to continuously perform repetitive work, at a set pace.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite software including a strong emphasis on Word and Excel.
- Must possess strong interpersonal skills with excellent communication skills.
- Bilingual a plus.
- Exhibits a high level of integrity and business ethics.
- Exhibits a high level of adaptability and flexibility.
Environmental Factors
Duties will be conducted at the retail store, warehouse, or other assigned Goodwill locations where no cooling or heating will be available.
Exposure to extreme heat, cold, dust, animal hair and sometimes humidity.
Physical Factors
- Able to lift, carry, push, and pull a minimum of 50 pounds.
- Prolonged standing, walking, reaching, stooping, lifting, pulling, bending, kneeling.