Bakery Associate FT

The Winn-Dixie Company; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Winn-Dixie Company in West Palm Beach, FL is seeking a Bakery Associate to assist in the daily operations of the bakery department and support customers with friendly, knowledgeable service.

In this role you will promote fresh, appealing products and uphold safety and food handling standards while contributing to a inclusive team environment and accurate product displays. Shifts are varied and customers come first in all tasks.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing roles preferred.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish helpful.
• Familiarity with food safety practices beneficial.

Responsibilities

• SERVICE: Create an environment that makes customers feel welcome and valued, ensuring product availability, freshness, quality and value.
• LEADERSHIP: Promote teamwork and clear communication, adhering to laws and company policies.
• FINANCIAL: Monitor inventory and product quality, assist with display, packaging and discarding per guidelines to reduce shrink.
• COMPLIANCE/SAFETY: Follow food safety, safety procedures, and wage/hour policies; report hazards and incidents.

Skills

Customer service

Bilingual English/Spanish

Food safety awareness

Education

High School / GED

Job description

Job Summary

Assists in the daily operations of the bakery department. Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions. Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable and prompt service. Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.

Bakery Associate

Job Summary

Assists in the daily operations of the bakery department. Increases customer confidence and loyalty by promoting and executing consistent and compliant operating conditions. Provides fresh and appealing products, courteous, knowledgeable and prompt service. Values diversity and supports an inclusive environment by embracing the backgrounds and experiences of the team.

Responsibilities

% Of Time

SERVICE: 60%

Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated that will increase customer confidence and loyalty. Delivers daily conditions that meet the company’s expectations for at shelf product availability, freshness, quality and value. Offers product samples, answers product questions and offers customers assistance in finding or suggesting products. Ensures customer requests and special orders are fulfilled.

LEADERSHIP: 20%

Promotes trust and respect among associates by collaborating, promoting teamwork, and communicating company, department, and job specific information. Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.

FINANCIAL: 10%

Maintains an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions and reports any discrepancies in inventory. Reviews/inspects products for quality and freshness and takes appropriate action with those items. Prepares, packages, labels, and displays products for sale. Utilizes production planning tools to accurately produce fresh products and ensures discarding or markdown processes are followed to reduce shrink. Ensures product is held at the proper temperature per food safety guidelines and retains documentation of temperate logs per policy.

COMPLIANCE/SAFETY: 10%

Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation and productivity are maintained. Adheres to all regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) & Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), and Department of Agriculture (DOA). Executes all product recalls and withdrawals in a timely manner while ensuring all items are secured and removed from customer access. Reinforces safety programs by complying with safety procedures and inspects and identifies unsafe conditions to report to store management. Notifies management of customer or employee accidents. Reports all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud. Ensures adherence to wage and hour policies and regulations. Cultivates a culture of safety within the store. Ensures self and all associates are working safely and have received necessary safety training. Ensures Hazardous Assessments are posted for associate reference and that Personal Protective Equipment is available and utilized by all associates executing tasks within the department, as required. Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Disclaimer

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Education

Required Education Course of Study: N/A

Preferred Education: High School / GED

Preferred Education Course of Study

Language Requirements

Language(s) Required Language(s) Preferred: English Spanish

Relevant Experience

Relevant Experience Supervisory Experience: 0 -3 yrs minimum

Environmental Factors

Environmental Factors: Retail - Bakery: Physical Demands: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand or walk on various types of flooring, utilize manual dexterity, talk, see, hear, smell and perform repetitive movements with both hands and/or both feet. The employee is frequently required to reach at waist level or overhead, carry, push, or lift various loads up to the required weights listed. The employee is occasionally required to sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and climb up to 10 ft. Working Conditions: While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee may be exposed to working in indoor, outdoor, cold, freezing, heated, and wet/humid working conditions. Safety Risk Factors: The employee is frequently required to twist back and/or neck, walk on a slippery or cluttered floor surface, work with hazardous equipment and be exposed to sharp objects. The employee is occasionally required to be exposed to loud noise, skin irritants, nuisance dust, fumes and sprays, hazardous cleaning solutions and other toxins. Overall Required Equipment: cleaning supplies and equipment, general office equipment, register, pricing gun, scales, scanner, various material handling equipment, such as racks, carts, pallet jacks, shopping carts Department Specific Required Equipment: Powered cutting equipment, such as a slicers, saws, grinders, various knives, various ovens, stoves, rotisserie, fryers, steamers, proofer, wrapping equipment Preferred Equipment: baler/compactor, general hardware tools such as a ladder, pliers, wire cutters, box cutter Personal Protective Equipment: Goggles, Gloves, Cutting Gloves, Fryer Gloves, Oven Gloves, Back Brace Pulling Requirement: 250 lbs. Lifting Requirement: 35 lbs.

Travel Percent & Overnight: Occasional No

Shift(s): Varied shifts.