Cake Decorator PT

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

Job summary

Lowes Foods is seeking a friendly bakery clerk to greet guests, decorate cakes, and keep the bakery area clean and organized. You will prepare cake decor, icing and labeling while ensuring product freshness.

Collaborate with teammates, assist in receiving and storage, and participate in a cake decorating test. The role emphasizes reliable guest service, safety, and physical stamina to lift up to 50 lbs.

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.
• Previous experience in cake decorating; there will be a test.

Responsibilities

• Provide polite, friendly greetings and interactions with all 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 organization of the freezer and rotate products by variety.
• Communicate guest requests to management.
• Communicate temperature breakdowns to supervisor.
• Keep supply area neat and tidy at all times.
• Rotate icings and read dates on icings.
• Use cake production sheet and cake manual as reference.
• Write on cakes and mix colors per color chart.
• Master the airbrush use.
• Achieve budgeted sales, shrink and profits for bakery.

Skills

Cake decorating

Friendly personality

Teamwork

Guest service

Reading/comprehension

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. Effective communication, guest service and selling skills.
• 6. Must be at least 18 years old.
• 7. Ability to bend, kneel and stand for extended periods of time.
• 8. Previous experience in cake decorating;there will be a test

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