Cake Decorator PT

Lowes Foods; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowes Foods is seeking a friendly, upbeat Bakery Clerk to greet guests and provide attentive service. You will prepare bakery products, maintain freshness, and help with decorating and labeling.

The role requires team collaboration, physical stamina to lift up to 50 lbs, and strict adherence to sanitation standards. Responsibilities include rotating stock, communicating guest requests, and assisting in the front porch duties to ensure a positive guest arrival experience.

Qualifications

• Friendly, outgoing personality with guest service focus.
• Ability to work well with others and in a team.
• Physically capable of lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally.
• Able to read and understand information and directions.
• Strong communication and selling skills with guests.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Able to bend, kneel and stand for extended periods.

Responsibilities

• Greet guests politely and provide friendly service.
• Prepare products for sale (icing, decorating, labeling).
• Maintain product quality and freshness.
• Assist in bakery duties and operation of the display area.
• Maintain sanitation standards in the cooler, freezer, prep area and sales area.
• Rotate icings and read dates for quality control.
• Use cake production sheets and assist in cake decoration.

Skills

Friendly personality

Teamwork

Physical stamina

Reading & following directions

Effective communication

Guest service

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

• 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.