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GRADER/SORTER- Union

Memphis Goodwill

Posted about 2 months ago

Full Time

Memphis, Tennessee

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The grader/sorter is responsible for inspecting, grading, and sorting apparel into boutique, salable, or salvage categories. They must also maintain a clean workspace and ensure all processed items meet safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

You have experience in sorting and categorizing apparel, with a strong understanding of brand names, designer labels, and current styles. You are adept at quality assurance, checking for damage, and ensuring items meet salable standards.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Pricing

Consumer Product Safety Commission recall bulletins

Job Description

  1. Stays abreast of brand names, designer labels, current and vintage styles, and price points for soft line goods.
  2. Sorts apparel into boutique, salable, and salvage categories. Place all salable apparel in the hang area of the sort table, tag and/or size apparel, hang apparel onto racks and transport racks of hung apparel to sales floor.
  3. Provides quality assurance by checking for tears, stains, wet, smelly, soiled, broken zippers, missing buttons.
  4. Recognize apparel brand names, knowledgeable on pricing, and grade quality of apparel.
  5. Achieves and exceeding the MGI production goals of (4) Dandux/Tallboys each day.
  6. Maintains sorting and processing area in a neat and clean condition at all times.
  7. Adheres to all policies and procedures; follow good safety and security practices including reporting safety hazards and injuries to the Team Leader Coach or ATL.
  8. Reviews and utilizes current Consumer Product Safety Commission recall bulletins to prevent unsafe items from being sold in the store.
  9. Handles equipment and follow safety procedures when moving equipment: push, not pull and never overfill equipment.
  10. May assists with floor running, apparel rotation, cleaning dressing rooms as needed.
  11. Responsible for performing assigned duties within the framework of our Guiding Principles.
  12. Attends in-service related training as assigned by Team Leader Coach.
  13. Performs other duties as assigned by the Team Leader Coach.

Memphis Goodwill

Memphis Goodwill's mission is to change the lives of people with disabilities and other barriers to employment through the power of work, education, and empowerment. We are a part of a 100 year old, not-for-profit human and community development initiative called Goodwill Industries which has developed a unique self-funding business of collecting and reselling used donated goods. Since its inception in 1927, Memphis Goodwill, has developed a strong donated goods business. The collection of goods through our donation centers has allowed us to positively impact the lives of thousands of Memphians. Today we operate in Memphis as well as north Mississippi and employ more than 800 people. Want to learn more? Watch this video for an overview of our history: http://goodwillmemphis.org/about/
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