Job Overview
Employment Type
Part-time
Hourly
Compensation
Hourly
Range $15.00 - $18.75
Work Schedule
Flexible
Day Shifts
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
employee discount
Retirement Plan
Employee assistance program
Paid holidays
Job Description
Hy-Vee is a renowned employee-owned supermarket chain known for its strong commitment to customer service, community involvement, and employee satisfaction. With over 70 years of history in retail grocery, Hy-Vee operates more than 270 stores across the Midwestern United States. The company prides itself on its people-centric philosophy, emphasizing teamwork, integrity, and growth mindset. Setting itself apart through its innovative approach, Hy-Vee ensures that every customer’s shopping experience is welcoming, efficient, and pleasant. It actively supports its workforce by fostering a friendly and supportive work environment where employees are encouraged to develop professionally and contribute meaningfully to the community it serves. Hy-Vee strongly believes that its people are its greatest strength, which reflects in the company’s promise of "a helpful smile in every aisle" — a commitment to ensuring customers feel valued and supported throughout their visit.
The role of a Fast and Fresh Clerk at Hy-Vee is an essential frontline position responsible for delivering prompt, efficient, and cheerful service to customers. This non-exempt position involves operating cash registers accurately, scanning products efficiently, and managing inventory in the Fast and Fresh department. Fast and Fresh Clerks play a crucial role in maintaining store cleanliness, ensuring product quality and availability, and assisting customers with their needs both inside the store and at the fuel pumps. The Fast and Fresh department focuses on ready-to-eat meals, beverages, and quick grab-and-go items that cater to busy customers seeking convenience and quality. Employees in this position embody Hy-Vee’s core competencies such as partnerships, growth mindset, results orientation, customer focus, and professionalism. They engage directly with customers, offering friendly greetings, personalized assistance, and helpful responses to inquiries and requests.
This position requires physical stamina as it involves medium work, including lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally, and various physical activities such as climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, and walking. Fast and Fresh Clerks also have responsibilities involving outdoor work like maintaining parking lots and fueling station areas, ensuring safety and cleanliness. Precision in handling cash transactions, coupon redemption, and following sanitation guidelines are critical aspects of the job. The hourly wage ranges from $15.00 to $18.75, reflecting experience and expertise. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports employee health and wellbeing, professional development opportunities, and a positive work-life balance.
Working at Hy-Vee as a Fast and Fresh Clerk offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a vibrant team in a fast-paced environment. The role demands dedication to customer satisfaction and adherence to high standards of store operations and personal professionalism. Individuals who thrive in a collaborative setting, have strong communication skills, and enjoy serving others will find this position rewarding and fulfilling. Hy-Vee encourages applicants who are eager to contribute positively to a committed workforce and uphold the reputation of delivering helpful smiles in every aisle to apply and join their team today.
The role of a Fast and Fresh Clerk at Hy-Vee is an essential frontline position responsible for delivering prompt, efficient, and cheerful service to customers. This non-exempt position involves operating cash registers accurately, scanning products efficiently, and managing inventory in the Fast and Fresh department. Fast and Fresh Clerks play a crucial role in maintaining store cleanliness, ensuring product quality and availability, and assisting customers with their needs both inside the store and at the fuel pumps. The Fast and Fresh department focuses on ready-to-eat meals, beverages, and quick grab-and-go items that cater to busy customers seeking convenience and quality. Employees in this position embody Hy-Vee’s core competencies such as partnerships, growth mindset, results orientation, customer focus, and professionalism. They engage directly with customers, offering friendly greetings, personalized assistance, and helpful responses to inquiries and requests.
This position requires physical stamina as it involves medium work, including lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally, and various physical activities such as climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, and walking. Fast and Fresh Clerks also have responsibilities involving outdoor work like maintaining parking lots and fueling station areas, ensuring safety and cleanliness. Precision in handling cash transactions, coupon redemption, and following sanitation guidelines are critical aspects of the job. The hourly wage ranges from $15.00 to $18.75, reflecting experience and expertise. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen. The company offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports employee health and wellbeing, professional development opportunities, and a positive work-life balance.
Working at Hy-Vee as a Fast and Fresh Clerk offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a vibrant team in a fast-paced environment. The role demands dedication to customer satisfaction and adherence to high standards of store operations and personal professionalism. Individuals who thrive in a collaborative setting, have strong communication skills, and enjoy serving others will find this position rewarding and fulfilling. Hy-Vee encourages applicants who are eager to contribute positively to a committed workforce and uphold the reputation of delivering helpful smiles in every aisle to apply and join their team today.
Job Requirements
- No education or experience requirements
- Must be able to physically perform medium work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and 20 pounds of force frequently and 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- Must be able to perform physical activities including climbing balancing stooping kneeling reaching standing walking pulling lifting grasping feeling talking hearing and repetitive motions
- Must have vision requirements including vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction depth perception color vision and field of vision
- Employment contingent on successful completion of pre-employment drug screen
Job Qualifications
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to operate cash registers and handle transactions accurately
- Team player with good communication skills
- Ability to perform physical duties such as lifting and standing for extended periods
- Basic arithmetic skills for handling discounts and transactions
- Ability to maintain cleanliness and sanitation standards
- Commitment to company policies and professionalism
Job Duties
- 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 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 and provides friendly helpful service to customers who call
- Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment
- Operates cash register accurately and scans product where applicable and reports improper cash levels in cash drawer
- Redeems promotional coupons food stamps receives cash checks completes credit-card charge transactions in-store charges and figures discounts as well as counts back change and issues receipts
- Places merchandise in bags or boxes and gives packages to customers
- Assists with inventory of the department
- Receives and checks in delivered merchandise and places in appropriate storage area Fills displays and stocks shelves
- Ensures proper maintenance of lot shovels sidewalk of snow spreads ice melt on ice hoses down lot
- Fills outside towel holders and replenishes or refreshes window washer fluid
- Removes trash inside and out in a timely manner
- Checks in product puts product away and may review invoices
- Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat
- Cleans but not limited to registers restrooms break room backroom sweeps and mops the floor and tends to supply needs
- 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
Job Criteria
Experience
No experience required
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