CFT - Cross Functional Rep - Part time

Cross-Functional Representative

As a Cross-Functional Representative, you'll provide general customer service, checking on the front end, and work across multiple departments in packaging, stocking, rotation, production, and sanitation duties. Key responsibilities include providing excellent customer service, answering customer questions regarding products, taking orders, assisting with product selection, and using suggestive selling techniques to meet customer needs and build department sales. You will also make regular product announcements to inform customers and work a flexible schedule to accommodate shifts of different departments. Additionally, you will perform duties in multiple departments, to include technical or perishable areas such as bakery, floral, market, etc. You will be responsible for stocking and replenishment, product returns and rotation, product selection, service support, inventory accuracy, and additional duties across the total store in multiple departments. You will build, stock, and maintain displays and fixtures, assist with inventory control; load, unload, and move product, and slice, package, label, rotate, merchandise, cull, and price product. You will gain knowledge of multiple departments; apply understanding of processes/policies, and comply with store and department SOPs, policies, and applicable laws. For the service cross-functional team, you will work as a checker when not performing cross-functional duties. You will ensure compliance with departmental/store SOPs for food safety and sanitation, properly operate and maintain all equipment, and clean/sanitize sales floor, display cases, prep areas, and equipment.

Qualifications and key requirements include being 18 years or older, having no minimum work experience but a preference for 6+ months of experience in H-E-B store operations. Knowledge of computer systems (Symbol, ACR, label machine) is required, along with customer service and interpersonal skills, verbal/written communication and reading skills, the ability to adapt to performing a wide range of duties across multiple departments, and the ability to work autonomously. An HS diploma or GED or equivalent is required, and completion of company orientation and safety training is also required.

Physical demands and working conditions include functioning in a fast-paced, retail environment, requiring detailed and precise tasks. You will work with customers, staying attentive to their needs, and work flexible schedules to accommodate differing department shifts. You will perform the following based on your department:

Bakery: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk, reach at shoulder, bend. Occasionally sit, reach overhead, reach at knee, reach at floor, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, hot conditions, loud noise. Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 70 lbs.

Dairy/Frozen/Grocery/Market: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold conditions, loud noise. DAIRY: Demonstrate the ability to lift 40 lbs, and manage in excess of 85 lbs. FROZEN: Demonstrate the ability to lift 60 lbs, and manage in excess of 75 lbs. GROCERY: Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 80 lbs. MARKET: Demonstrate the ability to lift 40 lbs, and manage in excess of 40 lbs.

Deli: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk, stoop. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, hot conditions, loud noise. Demonstrate the ability to lift 55 lbs, and manage in excess of 65 lbs.

Cosmetics/Drugstore/General Merchandise: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to wet conditions, loud noise, ambient temperatures. COSMETICS: Demonstrate the ability to lift 45 lbs, and manage in excess of 45 lbs. DRUGSTORE: Demonstrate the ability to lift 15 lbs, and manage in excess of 15 lbs. GM: Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 45 lbs.

Floral: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk. Frequently be exposed to cold conditions. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, ladder climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, hot conditions, loud noise. Demonstrate the ability to lift 55 lbs, and manage in excess of 45 lbs.

Gas Station: Constantly sit, reach at waist. Frequently grasp. Occasionally stand, walk, reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Demonstrate the ability to lift 40 lbs, and manage in excess of 40 lbs.

Produce: Constantly reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at waist, pivot, grasps. Frequently walk, reach at knee, reach at floor, stoop, squat, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally stand, bend, crouch, kneel, stair climb. Occasionally be exposed to wet, cold, hot conditions, loud noise. Demonstrate the ability to lift 60 lbs, and manage in excess of 75 lbs.

Seafood: Constantly reach at waist. Frequently stand, walk, pivot, push/pull with arms, grasp. Frequently be exposed to wet and cold. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, twist, pinch, perform fine motor movements, cervical flexion. Occasionally be exposed to hot conditions, loud noise, ambient temperatures. Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 25 lbs.

Service: Constantly stand, walk, reach at waist, grasp. Occasionally reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to cold, hot, loud noises, ambient temperatures, wet conditions. Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 30 lbs.

Shelf Edge: Constantly reach at waist, grasp. Frequently stand, walk. Occasionally sit, reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, pinch, perform fine motor movements. Occasionally be exposed to cold, hot, loud noises, ambient temperatures, wet conditions. Demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 65 lbs.

While there may be exceptions, the measurements noted are generally defined as--Constantly: 5.5+ hours per 8-hour day; Frequently: 2.5 - 5.5 hours per 8-hour day; Occasionally: 0 - 2.5 hours per 8-hour day. It is partners' responsibility to never lift beyond their own safe lifting limit. If an item is too heavy to lift, push or pull, and/or carry, the partner must break the box down into lighter, smaller, more manageable components, or ask for assistance from another partner or a manager. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Last revised: 7/1/2020