Hy-Chi Clerk

Hy-Vee Inc; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Hy-Vee, Inc. in Sioux Falls is seeking a Hy-Chi Department Clerk to fill customer orders, handle food safely, and assist with product receiving and labeling dating.

You will ensure accurate orders, manage production lists, greet customers, take orders at the Hy-Chi counter, and work with team members to maintain a friendly store atmosphere.

Qualifications

• High school or equivalent experience required.
• Six months or less of related experience.
• Ability to provide courteous, friendly customer service.

Responsibilities

• Provide prompt, efficient and friendly customer service to customers.
• Greet customers and address them by name when possible.
• Assist customers by guiding to products and handling requests.
• Take customer orders at the Hy-Chi Department counter.
• Work with coworkers to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Maintain sanitation and cleanliness of work area.
• Prepare and replenish department products as needed.

Skills

Partnerships

Growth mindset

Results oriented

Customer focused

Professionalism

Education

High school or equivalent

Job description

Additional Considerations

Night & Weekend Shifts Required

Job Title

Hy-Chi Department Clerk

Department

Hy-Chi

FLSA

Non-Exempt

General Function

As a Hy-Chi Department Clerk, this position will be responsible for filling customer orders, handling food in a safe manner, ordering and receiving products, making sure orders are correct, and labeling dating, and putting product away. Additionally you will ensure a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service to customers and team members.

Core Competencies

• Partnerships
• Growth mindset
• Results oriented
• Customer focused
• Professionalism

Reporting Relations

• Accountable and Reports to: District Store Director
• Store Managers
• Assistant Managers of Store Operations, Perishables, Health Wellness Home
• Hy-Chi Department Manager
• Assistant Hy-Chi Department Manager
• Service Managers

Positions that Report to you

None

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern, and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
• Assists customers by: (examples include escorting them to the products they’re looking for, securing products that are out of reach, loading or unloading heavy items, making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests, performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.)
• Answers the telephone promptly when called upon, and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call including taking customer orders.
• Takes customer orders at the Hy-Chi Department counter.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Reviews orders for the day.
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Reviews the status and appearance of the food for freshness.
• Ensures that an adequate food supply is ready and on hand and develops or follows a production list.
• Anticipates product needs for the department on a daily basis.
• Prepares, finishes, and replenishes product as necessary.
• Pulls product from cooler/freezer to prepare for cooking.
• Checks in product, puts product away, and reviews invoices.
• Runs the department register and receives payment, makes change, etc., where applicable.
• Removes trash in a timely manner.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Washes dishes as necessary.
• Orders product and supplies as necessary.
• Prices product for customers as necessary.
• Delivers orders as needed.
• Assists in other areas of store as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties and special projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics

Must have the ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or verbal instructions; deal with a few concrete variables. Ability to do simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting and recording. Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

Education and Experience

High school or equivalent experience and six months or less of similar or related experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Physical Requirements

• Must be physically able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally.
• Exert up to 20 pounds of force frequently.
• Exert 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Visual requirements include vision from 20 inches or less to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, and field of vision.

Working Conditions

This position is continually exposed to flour, dust, noise, and temperature extremes. There is occasional exposure to cleaning chemicals/solvents. This is a fast paced work environment with significant pressure.

Equipment Used to Perform Job

• Oven
• steamer
• scale
• big mixer
• shrink wrap machine
• Telexon re-ordering machine
• register
• walk in cooler
• knives
• serving cases
• C.A.R.S. system

Contacts

• Has daily contact with internal customers and the general public.
• Has weekly contact with suppliers/vendors.
• Has contact with Federal/State Governmental or Regulatory Agencies as necessary.

Confidentiality

None.