Bakery Cake Designer

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About the role

Bakery Cake Designer - Department: Bakery

Responsibilities

• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service
• Escorts customers to products they're looking for
• Secures products that are out of reach
• Loads or unloads heavy items
• Takes customer orders at Bakery counter
• Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction
• Checks orders for the day and sets up a timeline and production schedule
• Decorates bakery items in a timely manner
• Ensures department standards are met
• Checks cake orders for details (size, deco pack, icing needs, dates) daily and indicates supply needs
• Orders supplies for decorating area and checks off the order
• Delivers product and sets up wedding cakes on site (outside the store)
• Communicates with bakery manager regarding displays, weekly ads and special needs on a daily basis
• Checks product dates, pulls cases for work and lists items to fill or replace
• Develops bakery orders for bakers on a daily basis
• Tracks daily retail production
• Identifies, with co-workers, tasks to be completed
• Operates as a lead worker with part-time or other employees
• Instructs and reviews work
• Participates in employee cross training
• Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time

Secondary Duties And Responsibilities

• Wraps all product as necessary
• Assists in other areas of the store as needed
• Performs other job related duties and special projects as required

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Worker Characteristics

• Solves practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions
• Does arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages
• Files, posts, and mails materials; copies data from one record to another; interviews to obtain basic information; guides people and provides basic direction

Education And Experience

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

Physical Requirements

• Physically able to exert up to 100 pounds of force (shared team lifting) occasionally
• Exert up to 50 pounds of force frequently
• Exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches and more than 20 feet with or without correction, color vision, depth perception, and field of vision
• Able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions

Working Conditions

The duties for this position are normally conducted in a store environment. There is significant pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities. There is exposure to flour dust, noise, cleaning chemicals/solvents, residual fumes and temperature extremes.

Equipment Used to Perform Job

• Standard tools and equipment used in a bakery environment including mixers, ovens, turntables, tips, bas, airbrush, telephone copy cake machine, intercom system.

Contacts

• Daily contact with the general public taking orders
• Weekly contact with suppliers/vendors