Produce Manager Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Produce Manager roles can qualify for H-1B visa or TN visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like food science, agriculture, or supply chain management. Employers in grocery retail and food distribution have an established track record of filing Labor Condition Applications for this occupation.
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JR54283
Job Category
SO-Produce
Career Area
Store Management
Job Type
Regular
Schedule
Full time
Job Location
1050 East Philadelphia Avenue
Gilbertsville, PA 19525-9517
Overview
Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities? That's WEIS!
Location Address:
1050 East Philadelphia Avenue
Job Description:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Assistant Produce Manager is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:
- Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer issues promptly in a polite and professional manner. Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
- Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude. Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance. Creates the finished product in timely fashion.
- Ensures fresh quality merchandise by using proper product handling techniques. Help with controlling damages and minimizing product losses according to company procedures and standards.
- Assists Produce Manager in day-to-day functions of Produce operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement and customer service. Performs duties of Produce Manager in their absence.
- Develops and implements merchandising plans that meet financial goals. Knowledgeable on weekly ads and specials to ensure correct pricing and production amounts. Continuously improves knowledge of produced merchandise. Adheres to and enforces company policy of production logs.
- Oversees department inventories by tracking weekly sales reports, product orders and supplies to ensure successful period-end physical inventory.
- Assists with scheduling all department associates, participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department. Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
- Manages inventory levels and reviews orders to ensure product quantities meet customer demand. Maintains backroom organization and product storage within company guidelines. Oversees shelf replenishment efforts to ensure product availability for customers, with prioritization for weekly specials, seasonally and locally relevant items, and other high-velocity items. Utilizes cutting list for accuracy and variety of product.
- Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing. May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area. Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation. Monitors product quality and freshness. Breaks down deliveries.
- Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink. Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products. Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products. Completes required product logs.
- Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
- Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise. Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness. Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage. Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
- Assists in building attractive displays. Accurately completes necessary product logs. Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
- Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting procedures. Responsible for general sanitation in the department. Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements. Disposes of trash properly.
- May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained. Training provided.
- Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors. Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
- Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
- May also be called upon to assist in other departments.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Assists department manager in supervising all associates within the department. May also oversee the Floral department in select stores. Specific number of associates depends on store volume.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
To perform this job successfully, the Associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. Associate or bachelor's degree in business related or food service-related field desirable. Minimum (2) years' experience in management in retail/restaurant/supermarket environment.
Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.
Job ID
JR54283
Job Category
SO-Produce
Career Area
Store Management
Job Type
Regular
Schedule
Full time
Job Location
1050 East Philadelphia Avenue
Gilbertsville, PA 19525-9517
Overview
Looking for a company that treats associates with respect, understanding, and appreciation? Looking for a company that is passionate about teamwork and the growth of its associates and communities? That's WEIS!
Location Address:
1050 East Philadelphia Avenue
Job Description:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Assistant Produce Manager is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:
- Promotes excellent customer relations by instilling positive customer focused behavior with associates. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions and helps resolve customer issues promptly in a polite and professional manner. Focuses on continuous improvement in all areas of the department and makes changes to ensure progress.
- Takes customer orders over the phone or in person at the store with a pleasant and positive attitude. Determines what the customer is looking for in terms of size and appearance. Creates the finished product in timely fashion.
- Ensures fresh quality merchandise by using proper product handling techniques. Help with controlling damages and minimizing product losses according to company procedures and standards.
- Assists Produce Manager in day-to-day functions of Produce operations such as merchandising, ad execution, associate engagement and customer service. Performs duties of Produce Manager in their absence.
- Develops and implements merchandising plans that meet financial goals. Knowledgeable on weekly ads and specials to ensure correct pricing and production amounts. Continuously improves knowledge of produced merchandise. Adheres to and enforces company policy of production logs.
- Oversees department inventories by tracking weekly sales reports, product orders and supplies to ensure successful period-end physical inventory.
- Assists with scheduling all department associates, participates in training, rewards and recognizes performance and delegates work assignments to effectively utilize talents and abilities while maximizing profits for the department. Utilizes the Learning Management System (LMS) for current and new associates.
- Manages inventory levels and reviews orders to ensure product quantities meet customer demand. Maintains backroom organization and product storage within company guidelines. Oversees shelf replenishment efforts to ensure product availability for customers, with prioritization for weekly specials, seasonally and locally relevant items, and other high-velocity items. Utilizes cutting list for accuracy and variety of product.
- Checks and verifies all department deliveries and invoices to ensure accurate billing. May help unload merchandise and transport to sales floor or storage area. Enforces and follows department practices regarding receiving, dating and restocking to ensure product rotation. Monitors product quality and freshness. Breaks down deliveries.
- Controls department expenses by improving operations and efficiencies, controls labor costs and reduces losses due to damages, spoiled product and shrink. Ensures associates correctly follow company recipes for prepared products. Maintains freshness by properly removing and recording out of code products. Completes required product logs.
- Keeps produce department well stocked and appealing to meet customer demands. Smiles and greets customers, answers customer questions, handles special requests such as filling orders for fruit baskets and resolves customer concerns promptly in a polite and professional manner.
- Unpacks cartons and crates of merchandise, cleans and trims produce, stocks area with new merchandise. Ensures merchandise is in saleable condition which requires rotating stock to ensure freshness. Ensures that product has been properly priced with correct signage. Maintains salad bar and cut fruit/vegetable as needed.
- Assists in building attractive displays. Accurately completes necessary product logs. Handles spoiled and damaged product, new items and discontinued items accordingly to company policy.
- Maintains backroom and receiving area security and organization by promoting procedures. Responsible for general sanitation in the department. Follows cleaning schedules and department guidelines to ensure that work areas, equipment, counters, display cases, etc. are well maintained, clean and meet all health and OSHA requirements. Disposes of trash properly.
- May assist with baling cardboard or other related duties if properly trained. Training provided.
- Ensures smooth function of department and store by cooperating with co-workers and superiors. Responsible to continuously improve job performance.
- Responsible for utilization of all company provided Personal Protected Equipment (PPE). Including but not limited to cut resistant gloves, safety cutters, company sponsored footwear, etc.
- May also be called upon to assist in other departments.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Assists department manager in supervising all associates within the department. May also oversee the Floral department in select stores. Specific number of associates depends on store volume.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
To perform this job successfully, the Associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without an accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. Associate or bachelor's degree in business related or food service-related field desirable. Minimum (2) years' experience in management in retail/restaurant/supermarket environment.
Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Produce Manager
Document your specialty occupation case early
Pull the O*NET occupation profile for Produce Manager and cross-reference your degree against the listed knowledge areas. If your degree is in agribusiness, food science, or supply chain, you have a stronger specialty occupation argument than a general business degree.
Target grocery chains with distribution infrastructure
Large regional and national grocery chains with centralized buying teams are far more likely to have HR and legal infrastructure for LCA filing than independent produce stands or small cooperatives. Narrow your search to employers already operating at that scale.
Search verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filter Produce Manager roles on Migrate Mate to surface employers with confirmed LCA filing history in this occupation. That filing history signals the employer already understands the H-1B or E-3 process and won't stall at the sponsorship conversation.
Clarify the degree requirement before applying
Many Produce Manager postings list a degree as preferred, not required. USCIS requires the role to normally demand a specific bachelor's degree for H-1B specialty occupation status. Ask hiring managers directly whether the posted role is structured as a degree-required position before investing time in an application.
Use OFLC Wage Search to anchor your salary ask
DOL certifies LCAs only when the offered wage meets the prevailing wage for the role and location. Run the OFLC Wage Search for Produce Manager in your target metro before negotiating, so your number is already within the certifiable range and doesn't create an LCA problem later.
Confirm TN eligibility if you hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship
TN status covers agricultural managers under USMCA if the role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Canadian nationals can present documentation at a port of entry with no USCIS petition required, which removes the H-1B lottery timeline from the equation entirely.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Produce Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B sponsorship?
It depends on how the employer structures the position. USCIS requires the role to normally demand a bachelor's degree in a specifically related field, such as food science, agricultural business, or supply chain management. A Produce Manager job that lists a degree as optional or accepts any four-year degree is unlikely to pass specialty occupation review. Employers with formalized buying, inventory, or category management functions tend to have stronger cases than general retail floor supervisor roles.
Which visa types are realistic for Produce Manager sponsorship candidates?
H-1B is the most common path for degree-holding candidates, though the annual lottery means timing is unpredictable. Canadian and Mexican nationals should evaluate TN visa status under the agricultural manager category, which allows entry at a port of entry without an employer filing a USCIS petition. E-3 visa applies to Australian citizens in qualifying specialty occupations. H-2A visa is agricultural and seasonal only and does not apply to a salaried Produce Manager role.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor Produce Manager visas?
Browse Produce Manager listings on Migrate Mate, which shows employers with verified sponsorship history in this occupation. This saves time compared to applying broadly and discovering sponsorship obstacles late in the hiring process.
Will a three-year bachelor's degree from Australia or Canada satisfy H-1B degree requirements?
USCIS evaluates whether a foreign degree is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree using credential evaluation services. A three-year Australian or Canadian degree in food science, agribusiness, or a closely related field will generally be accepted by evaluators as equivalent, particularly when combined with relevant work experience. Have a credential evaluation completed before the employer files the LCA, since the LCA requires specifying the minimum education requirement for the position.
What does the PERM labor certification process mean for a Produce Manager green card?
PERM is the DOL audit process that most EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based green cards require before an employer can sponsor permanent residence. The employer must conduct a supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role. For Produce Manager positions, this typically falls under EB-3 skilled worker, which requires the role to need at least two years of experience or training. PERM timelines can run six months to over a year before the I-140 petition stage begins.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Produce Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.