Cake Decorator FT

Lowes Foods; Southern Pines (NC); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowes Foods in Southern Pines, NC, is seeking a friendly bakery clerk to greet guests, prepare products, and ensure quality and freshness. You will ice, decorate, label, and rotate stock while maintaining sanitation standards. This role supports guest service and store profitability with team collaboration.

Applicants must be 18+ years old, able to lift up to 50 lbs, and work well with others in a busy environment. Training provided; opportunities to grow within the bakery department.

Qualifications

• Friendly, outgoing personality.
• Effective communication and guest service skills.
• Ability to work well with others.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Ability to lift 25 lbs consistently and 50 lbs occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Greet guests politely and provide friendly interactions.
• Prepare bakery products for sale (icing, decorating, labeling).
• Maintain product quality and freshness; rotate stock.
• Perform bakery clerk duties when requested.
• Maintain sanitation in the cooler, prep area, and sales area.
• Communicate guest requests to management.
• Assist in product receiving and storage.

Skills

Friendly personality

Teamwork

Communication

Customer service

Selling

Job description

Overview

To grow community through building guest loyalty and providing personal guest interactions that build genuine relationships with guests and result in a brand-aligned experience.

Overview

To grow community through building guest loyalty and providing personal guest interactions that build genuine relationships with guests and result in a brand-aligned experience.

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.

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.
• 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.