Jordan Ranch Bakery - Lead - Full-Time

H-E-B Store Department Lead

H-E-B needs energetic and motivated partners willing to work hard and have fun while making our customers feel welcome. No matter what background you bring, or where you are in your career, we welcome you to join our community where people come first. As an H-E-B store department lead, you'll lead a well-stocked, well-maintained department, while providing superior customer service. You'll also perform supervisory responsibilities, such as scheduling work, and training and developing partners. Once you're eligible, you'll become an owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and customer service. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources people drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B the greatest omnichannel retailing company. Do you have a heart for people... willingness to train and supervise? Head for business... a strong sense of how what you do affects our customers and our success? Passion for results... drive to lead your department to exceed sales goals? We are looking for : an associate's degree or 6 months of related experience, communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Store lead operations / training : may serve as backup to department manager and typically works opposite shift to manager, may help prepare department work schedules, carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with policies and applicable laws, assists with inventory control; loads, unloads, and moves product, trains partners; directs work; addresses complaints; resolves issues; builds / follows up on production plans and their execution, assists in all technical areas, as needed, performs representative / specialist duties frequently.

Customer service / sales : provides / coaches on superior customer service, takes orders from customers by telephone or in person, answers customer questions regarding products; assists them with selections, uses suggestive selling techniques and advanced product knowledge and experience to meet customer needs and build department sales, merchandises products effectively.

Food safety : slices, packages, labels, rotates, and culls products for poor quality, complies with department / store operating procedures, cleans / sanitizes sales floor, display cases, prep areas, and equipment.

Additional department-specific responsibilities / pre-requisites :

Bakery : ensures / oversees effective production planning and execution of supporting processes, assists in all technical areas as needed (e.g., baking, frying, and decorating), culls bakery products for poor quality, expiration dates, writes on cakes with icing per personalized customer requests.

Beauty : applies advanced knowledge of current trends in beauty for hair care, skin care, and makeup.

Deli : may oversee a specific area of the business : service case, production, cheese shop or catering, assists with inventory control, including planning portion of fresh production planner (fpp); follows up on fpp inventory functions; ensures perpetual adjustment walk (paw) walks are complete, assists with ordering and event order management (eoms), assists with training on new systems, tools, processes, and product roll-outs; follows up with partners as needed to reinforce or retrain.

Prepared foods : serves / packages products at customer's request, educates customers on preparation / reheating instructions of prepared foods, prepackages condiments (sauces, dressings) for prepared food items, cuts, slices, dices, chops, food in preparation for chef.

Produce : lead (department) performs lead responsibilities for the department and may serve as backup to produce manager lead (in-store production), serves as dedicated lead over the in-store production work & production partners, spends majority of time with processing team engaged in daily sequence of tasks.

Texas backyard : strong knowledge of nursery field, strong knowledge of plant and chemical recommendations, ability to complete texas nursery & landscape association training (h-e-b internal training), keeps up with current nursery field-related trends.

What is your background? minimum age 18 (mandatory), associate's degree (aa), or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or 6+ months of related experience and / or training, or combination of equivalent education / training, completion of company orientation, food safety and sanitation training, and e-commerce online ordering training.

Do you have what it takes to be a fit as an h-e-b department lead? expert knowledge of department production stations, including quality standards, set-up, operation, cleaning, and maintenance of all equipment, ability to read and interpret documents (e.g., safety rules, operating / maintenance instructions, production planners, procedure manuals), ability to write routine reports and correspondence, ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or partners, ability to apply common sense / understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form, ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Can you... function in a fast-paced, retail environment, in detailed and precise tasks, work with customers, staying attentive to their needs, 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
• beauty / 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
• general merchandise : demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 45 lbs
• dairy / frozen / grocery : 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
• 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
• entertainment / nature's harvest : 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 loud noise entertainment : demonstrate the ability to lift 45 lbs, and manage in excess of 55 lbs
• nature's harvest : demonstrate the ability to lift 60 lbs, and manage in excess of 55 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
• 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, occasionally be exposed to hot conditions, loud noise, ambient temperatures, demonstrate the ability to lift 50 lbs, and manage in excess of 25 lbs
• showtime : constantly
• stand, reach at waist, grasp, frequently stand, walk, pivot, push / pull with arms, grasp, occasionally walk, reach overhead, reach at shoulder, reach at knee, reach at floor, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, stair climb, pivot, twist, pinch, perform fine motor movements, occasionally be exposed to loud noise, demonstrate the ability