Baker

This is a continuous recruitment posting for ongoing hiring needs across our store locations. Applications received under this posting are reviewed regularly as openings become available.
About KTA Super Stores

We owe our century of existence entirely to the people of Hawai'i Island. From our modest beginnings in a 500-square-foot store in 1916, KTA Super Stores and our associates remain deeply rooted in a single, quiet philosophy: to humbly serve the community that sustains us.
Core Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of a Baker is to ensure customer satisfaction by consistently preparing, baking, frying, and producing eye-appealing and quality products for the display case and for special orders, while delivering courteous, pleasant, and patient customer service.

• Baking & Production: Prepare, bake, fry, and produce quality products for the display showcase and special orders by accurately following recipes and making necessary adjustments. Prepare and mix fillings, batters, frostings, and other items needed for bakery products.
• Planning & Inventory Support: Prepare daily production lists and plan for upcoming days. Create breakout lists, receive/store freight, order supplies, and retrieve products or customer orders from walk-in chillers and freezers.
• Sanitation & Department Care: Clean and replace oil from fryers. Perform cleaning duties including washing dishes and equipment, discarding trash, and cleaning work tables and stations.
• Customer & Team Engagement: Promptly and efficiently greet, thank, offer assistance to, and meet customer needs with local warmth and hospitality. Answer incoming phone calls, take special orders, use the PA system, and assist Cake Decorators and Counter Clerks as needed.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

• Environment: Continuously perform most duties in an air-conditioned building that may be dusty and noisy with high customer volume. Work in prep rooms that may become very hot due to heat from stoves, ovens, and fryers. Frequently exposed to dust from powdered sugar/flour, as well as wet/cold conditions in walk-in chillers/freezers or dishwashing areas. Seldom work outdoors in hot/humid weather to receive freight, bale boxes, or discard trash.
• Physical Effort: Continuously stand, walk, handle items, and adapt to a fast pace during high-demand periods. Frequently bend, crouch, reach, and lift/carry up to 35 lbs (e.g., mixing bowls, ingredients, baking pans). Use fine finger dexterity for dough work and depth perception when using knives. Occasionally lift up to 100 lbs (pouring sugar) and push/pull up to 400 lbs (receiving freight).
• Equipment Use: Continuously use gas ovens, electric fryers, mixers, donut glazers, and proofers. Frequently use single-burner electric stoves, balance scales, pastry scissors, donut cutters, knives, spatulas, measuring tools, microwaves, pastry fillers, stock wagons, and telephones. Occasionally use TELXON units, case cutters, tongs, cake turntable/decorating tools, and cleaning tools. Seldom use bread slicers, pricing guns, and stretch wrappers.
• Safety Equipment: Continuously wear a back support belt while performing job duties.

Benefits & Work Culture

• Flexible work scheduling.
• Comprehensive on-the-job training.
• Health, dental, vision, paid time off, and retirement options for eligible associates.

Notice to Applicants: This document is a summary job posting for continuous recruitment purposes only. Active openings are filled from this applicant pool on an as-needed basis. Upon hire, associates are required to review, sign, and adhere to the official internal KTA Super Stores Job Description and company standards for this position.
Equal Employment Opportunity

KTA Super Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, arrest/court record, or any other protected class under Hawaii law. Pay differentials are strictly based on seniority, merit, production, or bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQs).

What You Bring

• Age Restrictions:
  
  
  • Must be at least 16 years of age to work in a walk-in freezer or chill box, and use a case cutter and knife.
  • Must be at least 18 years of age to clean, maintain, or operate a stove, oven, bread slicer, and any other power-driven equipment.
• Skills & Knowledge: Basic math skills (for measuring ingredients, calculating quantities/prices, and quoting orders), multi-tasking abilities, effective oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work under minimal or no supervision.
• Experience: Previous baking experience is preferred.
• Work Habits: Creative, detail-oriented, self-motivated, punctual, honest, able to memorize recipes/temps/times, and capable of working calmly under pressure or during frequent interruptions.
• Availability: General availability 7 days a week, including holidays, between 4:00 AM and 6:00 PM (overnight shifts are seldom required).
• Note: In accordance with Hawaii Revised Statutes § 378-2.4, KTA Super Stores does not ask for or rely on an applicant's salary history to determine starting pay.