Processing Manager at Erie Thirft Store

Position Title:  Processing Manager at Erie Thrift Store
Department: Processing  
Reports to:  Director of Social Enterprise
FLSA Status:  Exempt, Salary
Compensation: $37,000 - $40,000
Job Type:  Full-Time, 40 hours per week

Job Summary

Create a Christ-centered environment by leading the processing team by example and performing all duties required in prepping and pricing donated items to go on sales floor.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Lead and equip team to reveal Christ in every aspect of their job, to each other, donors, customers, and volunteers.
  
  
• Able to perform any of the required job duties within the processing team. This includes all requirements related to prepping and pricing merchandise.
  
  
• Train and retain processing employees
  
  
• Ensure that daily thrift trac reports are properly filled out in a timely manner,
  
  
• Must be able to appropriately set daily goals and plan their day according to projections/targets.
  
  
• Review Cyfe dashboard daily to understand and communicate targets to team.
  
  
• Maintain clean and well-organized presorting and processing area.
  
  
• Provide a positive and encouraging atmosphere for processing staff.
  
  
• Facilitate and promote and encourage positive and unified relationship between Processing, Donation/Receiving and Retail Departments.
  
  
• Work with and effectively communicate with the Retail Manager and Donation/Receiving Manager to ensure all operational needs of the store are being met.
  
  
• Stay up to date and well-informed with ever-changing needs and procedures given by Director.
  
  
• Communicate efficiently and clearly with the Director on the needs and progress of the processing team.
  
  
• Recognize the value and appropriate pricing needs of items prior to those items reaching the sales floor.
  
  
• Train and hold staff accountable for recognizing the value and appropriate pricing needs of items prior to those items reaching the sales floor.
  
  
• This person is responsible for directing New Life Program (NLP) clients to appropriate tasks and services in the donation center.  NLP clients must be managed closely to ensure the completion of tasks.

Education & Experience

Highschool diploma or GED required.

Skills & Abilities

• Must be a people person with a pleasant and willing attitude and have a servant’s heart.
  
  
• Must have a commitment to the Erie City Mission and its mission statement.
  
  
• Must have excellent time management skills.
  
  
• Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  
  
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
  
  
• Capable of exercising sound judgment and comfortable in asking questions, when necessary, to maintain the integrity of the department.
  
  
• Ability to prioritize work and multitask while adhering to established processing goals.
  
  
• Strong ability to delegate tasks.
  
  
• Able to read and define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
  
  
• Ability to take responsibility, to work well as a team member and to work independently without supervision within the scope of normal duties and responsibilities.
  
  
• Adaptable and flexible to situations and priorities.
  
  
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written or oral form.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is primarily standing for long periods of time and is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/ or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

Works primarily in the processing area.

Compensation and Benefits

$37,000 - $40,000 annually. Competitive salary wages will be commensurate with experience.

Full-time employees after 90 days receive:

• 401(k) with generous 5% company match
• Dental and basic life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid sick and personal days (9)
• Paid holidays (10)

Other full-time employee benefits include:

• Health insurance
• Paid vacation days
• 30-minute paid lunch