Cake Artist & Guest Experience Specialist

Lowes Foods; Wendell (NC); On-site; USD 16,531,000 - 20,664,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowes Foods in Wendell, NC is seeking a bakery clerk to greet guests, prepare and decorate bakery items, maintain freshness, and support front-porch duties. You will learn cake decoration, color mixing, and use of airbrush while helping manage bakery product quality and cleanliness.

The role requires strong guest interaction, ability to lift heavy items, and willingness to perform additional duties as needed. Training and team collaboration are emphasized.

Qualifications

• Friendly, outgoing personality.
• Ability to work well with others.
• Ability to lift 25 lbs. consistently and 50 lbs. occasionally.
• Ability to read and understand information and direction.
• Knowledge of bakery operations.
• Ability to supervise people including training and development.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn multiple tasks and technical requirements of the job.
• Effective communication, guest service and selling skills.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Ability to bend, kneel and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to effectively communicate with the Store Manager and Merchandiser.
• Ability to work well with computers.

Responsibilities

• Provide polite, friendly greetings and interactions with all guests.
• Prepare product for sale (icing, decorating, pricing, packaging and labeling).
• Maintain product level, quality and freshness.
• When requested perform bakery clerk functions.
• Maintain sanitation standards in the cooler, freezer, prep area and sales area.
• Properly cleans work area, couplers and decorating bags.
• Maintain the organization of the freezer, including proper rotation of product according to variety.
• Communicate guest requests to management.
• Communicate temperature breakdowns to supervisor.
• Keeps supply area neat, clean and tidy at all times.
• Properly rotates icings (including how to read dates of icings) and scrapes down buckets.
• Use cake manual as reference material.
• Write on cakes.
• Properly mix colors according to color chart.
• Masters the use of the airbrush.
• Use cake production sheet.
• Achieve budgeted sales, shrink and profits for the cake section of the bakery.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by management.
• Performs Front Porch duties to ensure “guest arrival” standard is maintained.
• Announce specials and sale info on the PA system.
• Assist in product receiving and storage.

Skills

Friendly personality

Teamwork

Physical capability

Reading and comprehension

Bakery operations knowledge

Supervisory ability

Multitasking and learning

Communication and selling skills

Age requirement 18+

Flexibility for physical tasks

Computer literacy

Job description

Lowes Foods in Wendell, NC is seeking a bakery clerk to greet guests, prepare and decorate bakery items, maintain freshness, and support front-porch duties. You will learn cake decoration, color mixing, and use of airbrush while helping manage bakery product quality and cleanliness.

The role requires strong guest interaction, ability to lift heavy items, and willingness to perform additional duties as needed. Training and team collaboration are emphasized.