Baker

Job Description With a focus on providing customers with quality baked goods, Bashas' bakers are true scratch bakers, producing baked goods and other related products in an efficient manner with a strong focus on product quality and freshness. Some Job Responsibilities include: "• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members. • Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling and always giving a genuine thank you. • Mixing, weighing, proofing, baking, frying, decorating, finishing and merchandising quality bakery products using Bashas' recipes. • Loading and unloading the oven, knowing the proper temperatures and duration to bake all varieties of product. • Scaling cakes and cupcakes, ice sweet rolls, breads and cookies, etc. • Assisting in the ordering and receiving of bakery products and supplies. • Controlling product inventory and out of stocks, shrink and supplies. • Using scale printer machine, ensuring weights and pricing are correct. • Understanding the importance and the monitoring of product pricing, signage, and placement as well as the use of product shelf tags and shelf signage. • Keeping a clean, neat and orderly bench, production area, storage area, and walk-in coolers and freezers. • Helping in the wrapping, boxing, weighing, slicing, finishing, and stocking bakery department products, rotating them as necessary to ensure quality and safety. • Displaying goods following bakery department and/or merchandising guidelines. • Helping decorators with personalization of cakes and icing of cakes, donuts, sweet rolls and etc. Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 18 years old. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time .This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This job description is subject to change at any time. Employer provides reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee that does not impose an undue hardship on the employer. " Job Qualification "• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous. • Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties. • Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations. • Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures. • Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store. • Memorize product locations. • Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters. • Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary. • Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members. • Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 – 50lbs. • Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags. • Operate manual and electric pallet jacks. • Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers. • If called upon, night crew clerks may need to learn use of cash registers. " #J-18808-Ljbffr