Bakery Deli Specialist: Fresh, Friendly Service

The Winn-Dixie Company; Marco Island (FL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Winn-Dixie Company in Florida is seeking a Bakery Department associate to assist daily operations, promote customer confidence, and ensure fresh, quality products with courteous service. You will support compliance, inventory, and safety programs while delivering samples and helping customers find items.

The role emphasizes a welcoming environment, adherence to food safety guidelines, and teamwork across shifts in a retail bakery setting.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Authorization to work in the United States or ability to obtain.
• Successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background check.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, motivational and communication skills.
• Operate deli equipment (e.g., slicer, oven, scale, knives, box cutter and pricing gun) according to company guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Creates an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensures company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation and productivity are maintained.
• Adheres to regulatory compliance requirements pertaining to food safety, USDA & COOL, and 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.
• Ensures equipment is in good repair; reports and assists with remediation (ex. lock out/tag out of equipment) of safety hazards within the department.

Skills

Customer service

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Deli equipment operation

Education

High School / GED

Job description

The Winn-Dixie Company in Florida is seeking a Bakery Department associate to assist daily operations, promote customer confidence, and ensure fresh, quality products with courteous service. You will support compliance, inventory, and safety programs while delivering samples and helping customers find items.

The role emphasizes a welcoming environment, adherence to food safety guidelines, and teamwork across shifts in a retail bakery setting.