Cake Decorator FT

Lowes Foods, LLC; Wendell (NC); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowes Foods, LLC is seeking a Bakery Clerk to greet guests, prepare bakery items, and maintain product freshness across the bakery section.

You will learn cake decorating, color mixing, and sanitation while meeting budgeted sales goals and collaborating with store management.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide polite, friendly greetings and interactions with guests.
• Prepare product for sale (icing, decorating, 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.
• Communicate guest requests to management.
• Communicate temperature breakdowns to supervisor.
• Keeps supply area neat, clean and tidy at all times.
• Properly rotates icings and reads dates.
• Use cake manual as reference material.
• Write on cakes.
• Mix colors according to color chart.
• Master 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 standards.
• Announce specials and sale info on the PA system.
• Assist in product receiving and storage.

Skills

Friendly personality

Teamwork

Lift 25 lbs.

Read directions

Bakery operations

Supervisory skills

Multi-tasking

Communication & selling

18+ years old

Stamina and posture

Computers

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

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