Bakery Clerk

Bakery Clerk

If you enjoy working with people and take pride in a well-presented bakery, our Bakery Clerk position could be a great fit! You'll assist customers, wrap and label bakery products, and stock and rotate displays. You'll also help keep the department clean, organized, and ready for customers.

At Sendik's Fine Foods, we're more than just a grocery storewe're a family-owned company that values our employees and promotes a positive, supportive work environment. We offer flexible scheduling, opportunities to learn and grow within the company, and a comprehensive benefits package for all team members that includes a 401(k) with company contribution and employee discounts. Full-time team members also enjoy health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and more. If you're looking for a workplace where your contributions are appreciated and you can build a long-term career, we'd love to have you on our team!

Bakery Clerk Job Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To provide wrapping, stocking and customer service support for the Bakery Department. To contribute toward ensuring a positive shopping environment for customers and a positive working environment for employees.

NATURE AND SCOPE: Emphasis in this position is to consistently service customers and to prepare and display product to ensure maximum sales and product availability. Primary learning challenge is product knowledge, sequence of workflow and production speed. This position requires ongoing judgment/decision making, social skills/verbal interaction, listening skills, reading, standing, walking, moderate lifting, and operation of finishing and wrapping equipment. Position functions and work hours may vary according to business needs. The Bakery Manager or person in charge provides assignments and work direction.

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS

• Assist customers with questions and requests
  • Attend to customer needs for ordering, information and counter service
  • Greet customers in the department and offer suggestive selling
  • Answer department telephone calls and pages
• Wrap bakery product
  • Slice and bag bread and buns
  • Transfer product to trays or containers
  • Shrink wrap product when appropriate
  • Label all wrapped product
• Stock, rotate and face bakery product
  • Pull stales and write down product, quantity and retail
  • Prepare sales area by cleaning cases and bins
  • Rotate and face product
  • Stock shelves, bins and cases
  • Check price and verify sign and product price
• Finish bakery product
  • Allow baked goods to cool and glaze or drizzle appropriate product
  • Clean department and maintain conditions in the back room
• Assist in maintaining proper signage and decorations
• Perform shop back duties
• Follow all store and department policies and procedures

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Physical
  • Lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs.
  • Pushing/pulling up to 150 lbs.
  • Equipment operation (mixer, scraper, scales, knives, proofer, oven, timer, decorating tubes, lazy Susan, wrapping machine, racks, labeler, bread slicer, calculator, spatula, cleaning utensils, telephone)
  • Reaching, turning, walking, sitting, standing, squatting, kneeling, stooping, bending, climbing ladders
• Mental
  • Judgment/decision making
  • Listening skills
  • Social skills/verbal interaction
  • Reading, writing, math
  • Memorization
• Environmental
  • Working with hot equipment
  • Exposure to fatty acids and smoke
  • Working in cold conditions

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time, and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations or for the work environment change.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.