Bakery Clerk

Brookshire Grocery Company; United States; On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookshire Grocery Company is seeking a bakery team member to package and label bakery products while maintaining stock levels. Responsibilities include adhering to food safety standards, assisting in the preparation and display of products, and ensuring a clean, safe working environment.

Candidates should have a Food Handler certification and be able to communicate effectively with customers. The position requires flexibility in scheduling, including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• Must be 21 years of age to drive for Company business.
• Food Handler certification required.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to quality control and food safety standards.
• Assists bakery personnel with preparing, packaging, and displaying products.
• Promotes product sales through suggestive selling.

Skills

Ability to read and operate digital equipment

Ability to operate hazardous tools

Excellent communication skills

Team player

Attention to safety

Education

Food Handler certification

Job description

Job Summary

Packages, labels, and prices bakery products. Maintains stock levels and product quality by monitoring dates, appearance, and storage temperature controls.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Adheres to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating baked goods.
• Assists bakery personnel with preparing, packaging, labeling, and maintaining product displays.
• Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Stacks pallets and sorts product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations.
• Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.
• Provides friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking orders by phone and in person.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a bread slicer, commercial oven, etc.
• Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.
• Ability to use precision and non-precision hand tools.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with customers and partners in written and verbal form.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• Food Handler certification required.
• Typically involves on-the-job training.

Physical Demands

Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.

Continuously required to stand or walk.

Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.

Continuously required to talk and hear.

Frequently required to use strenuous finger or hand movements.

Frequently required to bend, kneel, squat, or stoop.

Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.

Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 75 lbs.

Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Frequently exposed to hot surfaces.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Frequently exposed to extreme heat conditions (non-weather).
• Frequently exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.

Frequently exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges.

Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.

Quiet to moderate noise level.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Brookshire Grocery Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or military status and any other trait protected by law.