Who is Easterseals Redwood?
Here at Easterseals Redwood, we believe that uniqueness is power. We change the way the world views and defines disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day. In Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, we do this with a focus on building a more diverse and inclusive workforce and community. We break down barriers for people with disabilities, veterans, and people with economic disadvantages. Easterseals Redwood is an engine for opportunity. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive human services providers in the region. New graduates are welcome to apply!
Our values: Believe in people, Joy, Inclusion, Curiosity, Impact, and Courage
About being a Retail Store Associate at Easterseals Redwood:
Building Value is a social enterprise of Easterseals Redwood with a mission to accelerate life-changing careers in construction for people facing employment challenges. Our teams deconstruct and salvage reusable building materials for resale to the public, at our retail store in Northside. Our efforts and proceeds support the Building Value and Easterseals Redwood mission of helping individuals build sustainable employment, while also helping the environment, reducing the cost of disposal, and giving architectural gems a second life.
With a customer-first attitude, the Retail Store Associate works with customers, donors, and Building Value staff to ensure a positive shopping experience. The ideal Retail Associate will have vision, creativity, and ability to use salvaged materials to produce upcycled items. You will assist the Retail Store Management with maintaining an organized, well merchandised, clean, and profitable retail store, which exceeds customer expectations.
Essential Primary Responsibilities and Functions
- Assists with moving, cleaning, organizing, and staging store merchandise.
- Utilize P.O.S. system to accurately check out customers.
- Assists customers with location of items within the store.
- Determine acceptable donations on the spot.
- Must be willing and capable of learning/familiarizing yourself with store merchandise such as sinks, cabinets lumber and appliances. Becomes familiar with all item classifications and pricing/tagging of inventory.
- Ensures accuracy when scheduling a pick up or delivery with customers by asking all questions necessary (i.e., who, what, where, when and how).
- Ability and willingness to research donated items to identify what an item it is, when it was produced, and any other relevant information needed for posting and pricing.
- Works assigned schedule, including opening and/or closing shifts with key holder responsibilities when closing.
- Regularly assists with daily cleaning and organizing to maintain Store cleanliness (interior) and store premises (exterior grounds/property)
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
What Easterseals Redwood needs from our Retail Store Associate:
- Retail experience in retail sales and/or building products, home improvement, or hardware is preferred.
- Ability and willingness to take initiative and work hard/diligently for entire shift.
- Friendly, customer focused, and able to maintain good work relations.
- Ability to exhibit flexibility in work schedule & job tasks.
- Must be comfortable working in a dynamic work/store environment and flexible managing a constant change in materials/inventory.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- While performing duties of this job, the emplyoees frequently sands and moves for extended periods and occasionally sits
- Work environment is mostly indoors, but is consistent with material salvaging, deconstruction and manufacturing, including dust, and at times has exposure to extreme heat and cold, and noise.
- Employee regularly uses hands and arms to reach, lift, and carry materials.
- Frequently stands, sits, bends, balances, kneel & stoop, and lifts
- Employee frequently lifts varying weights up to 50 pounds (or more) when moving cabinets, materials, and other donations.
- May use basic hand tools or equipment in cleaning, maintenance, or repair needs
- Occasionally exposed to minor cuts and injuries.
If you’re someone that is passionate about making a difference and would like the opportunity to do just that every day, a career at Easterseals Redwood may be for you. We are currently hiring and encouraging anyone interested in becoming part of an organization with a mission-driven, relationship-focused, joy-filled culture to apply.
We are a drug-free workplace.