Produce Clerk

Job Summary:

At Hy-Vee our people are our strength. We promise "a helpful smile in every aisle" and those smiles can only come from a workforce that is fully engaged and committed to supporting our customers and each other. The Produce Clerk provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Handles food in a safe manner and ensures the work area is always clean and neat. Reviews the status and appearance of the merchandise for freshness. Demonstrates partnerships, growth mindset, results orientation, customer focus, and professionalism. Apply today.

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 in the designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Makes an effort to learn customers' names and address them by name whenever possible.
• Assists customers by escorting them to products, securing items out of reach, loading or unloading heavy items, passing along suggestions or requests, and performing other tasks to enhance the shopping experience.
• Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to callers.
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
• Practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
• Ensures an adequate product supply is available and follows or develops a production list.
• Anticipates daily product needs, checks in products, puts products away, and may review invoices.
• Replenishes and rotates product to maintain freshness.
• Removes trash in a timely manner.
• Prepares, finishes, and replenishes product as necessary.
• Maintains strict adherence to hygiene, dress code, and company policies.
• Reports to work as scheduled and on time.
• Orders products and supplies as needed.
• Prices products for customers as necessary.
• Delivers orders as required.
• Assists in other areas of the store as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties and special projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Less than high school education or equivalent experience.
• Six months or less of similar or related work experience.
• Ability to carry out detailed but simple written or verbal instructions.
• Ability to deal with a few concrete variables.
• Basic math skills including simple addition and subtraction.
• Ability to copy figures, count, and record information.
• Ability to follow verbal or demonstrated instructions, write identifying information, and request supplies orally or in writing.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to perform medium work: exerting up to 50 lbs occasionally, 20 lbs frequently, and 10 lbs constantly.
• Visual requirements include close and distant vision, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
• Must be able to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, feel, talk, hear, and perform repetitive motions.

Working Conditions:

• Frequently exposed to temperature extremes and dampness.
• Possible exposure to equipment movement hazards, electrical shock, cleaning chemicals, and solvents.
• Fast-paced work environment.

Equipments Used:

• Knives
• wrapping machine
• cash register
• pallet jack
• garbage disposal
• trash compactor
• cardboard compactor
• calculator.