Bakery Clerk

Winco Foods; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking grocery retailer where you can make a real impact in your community. As a Bakery Associate, you will be responsible for creating delicious bakery products while providing exceptional customer service. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, engaging with customers and ensuring their needs are met with enthusiasm. You'll also have the opportunity to learn and operate various bakery equipment, ensuring quality and safety standards are upheld. If you are passionate about baking and enjoy working in a team-oriented atmosphere, this is the perfect position for you!

Benefits

Medical Plans

Tuition Support

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Flexible Hours

Qualifications

• Ability to provide friendly, courteous customer service consistently.
• Must be 18 years or older and possess Food Handlers Certification.

Responsibilities

• Scales, mixes, and bakes various bakery goods.
• Maintains cleanliness and inventory levels in the bakery department.

Skills

Customer Service

Basic Math Skills

Sanitation Procedures

Visual Inspection

Education

Food Handlers Certification

Tools

Ovens

Mixers

Pressure Hoses

Label Machine

Job description

About Us

Join us at WinCo Foods, where we're more than just a grocery retailer - we're a growing family of over 140 supermarkets in 10 states with over 22,000 employee owners. Our purpose is to make the lives of our customers and employee owners better by offering the lowest possible prices to feed their families. Currently, WinCo is the second largest Employee-Owned company in the United States, with more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Our benefits, including top-tier medical plans and tuition support, set us apart. In your role, you'll be instrumental in making a real impact in the communities we serve, embodying our purpose every day.

Overview

Job Summary

Scales, mixes, and bakes various bakery goods. Maintains proper inventory levels of products and ensures the cleanliness and appearance of the bakery department meet standards. Consistently provides friendly, courteous service to internal and external customers. Performs other related work.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve, and thank customers. Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis on taking care of the customer.
• Produces bakery products for retail stores.
• Operates and cleans equipment and work area. Maintains a clean, safe, and sanitary bakery area and equipment.
• Packages all fresh products following all packaging and handling procedures.
• Ensures quality of goods by following code.
• Mixes icing or other toppings by scaling and measuring ingredients, operating a mixer, reading the recipe, and occasionally lifting 50 lbs. bags of sugar, shortening, and flour.
• Dumps icing or other toppings into large storage containers.
• Sets up cakes by taking liners off, putting icing between layers of numerous items (e.g., 50 cakes at a time).
• Ices cakes by applying icing, bordering, placing decorations, etc., for numerous items (e.g., 50 cakes at a time).
• Packages cakes by placing them in boxes.
• Labels bakery items by inputting data into DiGi machine for scanning and placing labels on containers.
• Displays products on shelves appealingly and uses FIFO for rotation.
• Takes orders by phone and in person, including special orders, using tools like an airbrush machine, tubes, tips, etc.
• Personalizes cakes by writing customer-specified words.
• Faces merchandise.
• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness, emphasizing fast, friendly service.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques in person, over the phone, and via in-store intercom.
• Displays goods following packaging and handling procedures, maintaining stock, cleanliness, and appeal.
• Assists customers with inquiries regarding orders, pricing, ingredients, and availability.
• Ensures quality and legal compliance of bakery products through proper dating, labeling, and packaging.
• Maintains stock levels by informing managers and accurately filling inventory and production sheets.
• Produces breads/rolls by mixing recipes, setting up racks and pans, operating machines, lifting products, measuring ingredients, and baking.
• Cleans work areas using pressure hoses, brushes, squeegees, and wiping all surfaces.
• Produces croissants by folding by hand, proofing, and baking.
• Opens and closes bakery according to company procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed.

Requirements

Ability to:

• Provide friendly, courteous customer service consistently.
• Work varied hours, primarily between 3:00 am and 10:00 pm, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Pushing and pulling approximately 100 lbs. of product on racks.
• Lift objects up to 50 lbs., including mixing ingredients.
• Conduct visual inspections, follow recipes, log production data, and read labels.
• Handle bakery ingredients and perform basic math calculations.
• Maintain composure and safety, respond to timers, and work around heat-emitting equipment.
• Follow sanitation procedures, wear PPE, and communicate effectively with team and customers.
• Operate kitchen utensils and equipment with speed and accuracy.
• Must be 18 years or older.

Additional Requirements:

• Food Handlers Certification (per State Laws)

Machines and Equipment Operated:

• Ovens, proof box, mixers, bread sheeter, flour dump bins, pressure hoses, dishwashers, rack washers, pallet jacks, microwave, dividers, donut filler, airbrush, date gun, scan gun, DIGI printer, label machine, inkjet printer.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by employees in this role. All employees must comply with company policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities, duties, and qualifications may vary.

EEO/Inclusivity

As WinCo Foods continues to grow, our diversity—from our variety of perspectives and wide range of experiences—is essential to our strategy and success. We are committed to cultivating and celebrating an inclusive environment where all employees are valued and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.