
Support Associate - Full Time
Ashland, KYFull-timePosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Operations Team Associate supports store operations by processing inbound deliveries, preparing merchandise for the sales floor, and completing outbound merchandise activities. The role also supports facilities maintenance, inventory accuracy, merchandising, fulfillment, and back-of-house organization. Associates help customers, maintain operational standards, and contribute to a positive store culture while following asset protection and safety procedures.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
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Full job description
The Operations Team Associate drives sales and delivers a positive customer experience by processing inbound truck deliveries accurately and efficiently, ensuring new merchandise is customer ready. This role executes outbound merchandise activities, supports facilities maintenance, and maintains back-of-house organization, while working closely with merchandising team to place and sign product on the sales floor. This is an hourly position.
What you will do
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Demonstrate ownership and initiative in achieving personal goals, store objectives, and daily priorities.
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Efficiently unload cartons from truck deliveries, separating cartons by department, processing, removing plastic, and hanging items as needed to ensure product readiness for sales floor. Follow operational processes and procedures to enhance productivity.
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Complete sensor tag application, product transfers, damage processing, and RFID tasks to support inventory accuracy.
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Assist with facilities processes, including lighting/recycling programs, work orders, store maintenance, and housekeeping responsibilities.
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Support merchandising and store fulfillment teams with floor sets, product presentations, promotional sets, price changes, and picking and packing customer orders.
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Maintain daily operational standards by replenishing supplies, supporting store recovery efforts, and ensuring cleanliness. Organize and properly store tools, supplies, excess stock, fixtures, and other equipment to promote efficiency.
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Leverage training tools, use resources, and embrace feedback to build knowledge of operational processes and procedures and strengthen performance. Stay informed of products, promotions, policies, and store events to enhance execution.
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Enhance in-store customer experience by warmly acknowledging and assisting customers, supporting the store during peak traffic and coverage periods, and completing other tasks as assigned.
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Contribute to a positive store culture by building connections with teammates, sharing knowledge, and celebrating individual and team achievements.
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Follow asset protection procedures, safety guidelines, and security protocols, supporting store shortage control and minimizing risk.
Skills and Abilities
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Dedication to customer service and a drive to achieve store objectives.
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Skills and experience to perform in the role and a commitment to continuously learn.
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Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and contribute to store success.
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Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
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Communicate with excellence.
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Comfortable with technology, including smartphones, tablet computers and Windows-based operating systems.
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Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
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Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers.
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Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 50 lbs.
The job posting highlights the most relevant / essential responsibilities and requirements of the role. It is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for this job.
How this job compares
Set against the 6,161 open Retail Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Kentucky median$13–14/hr33 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 126 open Retail Associate jobs in Kentucky and 6,161 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Dollar General29 open
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- Experience
- Retail Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (514 postings).
- Education
- 9 of the 6,161 open Retail Associate jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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