Role Description The Assistant Chill/Freeze PIC is a working department leader who supports the Chill/Freeze PIC with daily departmental operations, team-member development, customer service, and maintaining Company operating standards. This role includes coordinating daily workflow, assigning tasks, providing hands-on training and coaching, overseeing stocking, replenishment, product rotation, markdowns, freight handling, and inventory organization. The Assistant PIC also supports ordering, merchandising, product availability, and department safety while assuming delegated department leadership responsibilities when the Chill/Freeze PIC is unavailable. Required Skills/Abilities: • Coordinate daily workflow, work assignments, breaks, and operating priorities as directed by the department PIC. • Provide hands-on training, coaching, and work direction to department team members while communicating performance observations and concerns to the PIC. • Perform and coordinate stocking, replenishment, product rotation, markdowns, freight handling, back-stock organization, signage, and temperature-sensitive product activities. • Support ordering, replenishment, inventory control, merchandising, product availability, shrink control, and overall department organization. • Monitor department safety, cleanliness, equipment, and operating standards and promptly correct or escalate identified issues. • Provide prompt and courteous customer service and resolve routine department-level questions or concerns within delegated authority. • Support opening, closing, and other department-leadership responsibilities as assigned. • Assume delegated department coordination and leadership responsibilities when the Chill/Freeze PIC is unavailable. • Communicate staffing, inventory, customer, equipment, safety, and operational concerns to the department PIC or Store Management. • Coordinate daily workflow and reinforce priorities established by department leadership. • Demonstrate dependable follow-through, sound judgment, and appropriate escalation of issues. • Maintain attention to customer service, safety, inventory, merchandising, sanitation, and department operating standards. • Communicate effectively with team members, department leadership, Store Management, customers, and vendors. • Work independently within delegated authority while supporting the PIC's accountability for department results. • Maintain composure and professionalism during high-volume or time-sensitive situations. • Assist with other store functions as assigned, consistent with position responsibilities and qualifications. Experience/Education: • A High School Diploma or GED is preferred. • Previous experience in the department or a closely related retail function is preferred. • Previous lead, training, ordering, inventory, or supervisory experience is preferred. • Ability to direct workflow, train team members, and coordinate daily department activities. • Ability to use Company retail, ordering, inventory, communication, and other systems applicable to the department. Company Description Three Bears Alaska is a family-owned chain of Alaskan grocery stores with so much more. We are committed to providing customers with quality goods and services at the lowest possible price. We strive to meet the needs of our customers by offering a diverse range of products and exceptional customer service. With multiple locations throughout Alaska, Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is dedicated to serving the local community and creating a positive shopping experience. Benefits: • Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Colonial Life Elective Benefits • 401(k) • Paid time off • Holiday Pay • Automatic raise of $1.00/hr every 1,040 hours worked Auto raises will be provided based on straight-time hours worked until top of pay scale is reached. Pay Range: Starting at $19.00/hr (DOE) • Full-time/Part-time • Early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and additional hours may be required based on department needs. Office Location and Travel: • LOCATION: In person • Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required) Working Environment Work is performed primarily in sales-floor, cooler, freezer, receiving, and back-stock areas. Working conditions may include frequent exposure to cold and freezer temperatures, as well as occasional exposure to outdoor weather, cleaning chemicals, noise, moving equipment, and freight-handling conditions. Physical requirements include standing and walking for extended periods throughout the work shift. Employees must be able to frequently bend, reach at or below shoulder level, push, pull, grasp, and perform repetitive hand motions while handling merchandise, supplies, and equipment. Occasional squatting, climbing, and reaching above shoulder level may also be required. Frequently lifting and carrying merchandise weighing up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifting and carrying merchandise weighing up to 75 pounds may be required. Employees must be able to read labels, signs, order information, transaction records, and electronic records; safely navigate customer, stockroom, and work areas; and hear and communicate with customers and team members while recognizing equipment alarms, warnings, and other audible safety signals. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position. Equal Employment Opportunity & Reasonable Accommodation Three Bears Alaska, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration without regard to protected status under applicable law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position. This job description is intended to provide basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions may change as needs evolve.