Cake Decorator FT

Lowes Foods; Waxhaw (NC); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Lowes Foods is seeking a Cake Decorator to provide friendly guest interactions, decorate cakes, and ensure product quality and freshness. The role involves working with icing, color mixing, labeling, and maintaining sanitation in the bakery area.

The ideal candidate is friendly, able to lift up to 25 lbs repeatedly and 50 lbs occasionally, and can stand for extended periods. 18+ and team-oriented, with a knack for guest service and sales.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide polite, friendly greetings and interactions with 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 rotates icings and scrapes down buckets; use cake production sheet and cake manual as reference material.
• Write on cakes and master the use of the airbrush.
• Achieve budgeted sales, shrink and profits for the cake section of the bakery.
• 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.

Job description

Overview

Local and proud of it! Join Lowes Foods as a Cake Decorator and see how great pay, flexible hours, and an entertaining and FUN work environment make a real difference!

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.