(USA) Cake Decorator

Sam's Club; Lubbock (TX); On-site; USD 26,174 - 37,195; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Company-paid life insurance

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

A leading membership-based retail warehouse in Lubbock is seeking a Cake Decorator. This role involves collaborating with team members to enhance member experience by ensuring high-quality production of bakery items. Candidates should have cake decorating skills and prior experience in a fresh production area. The position offers comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), and educational assistance. Hourly wage ranges from $19.00 to $27.00 based on experience and required qualifications.

Qualifications

• Six months’ experience in a fresh production area.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must successfully complete all required trainings and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Drive member service by fulfilling bakery production goals.
• Collaborate to maintain quality and consistency in bakery items.
• Utilize handheld technology for production and inventory management.

Skills

Cake decorating skills

Customer service

Collaboration

Flexibility

Job description

Position Summary

As a Cake Decorator you will drive member service in your area to deliver to our members more of what they love, for less. You will work collaboratively with other associates to ensure the total club meets the member’s expectations.

What You’ll Do

• Be a Team Member: Collaborates with cross‑functional teams and helps educate other associates on tools, tasks and resources. Communicates and develops interpersonal skills for providing customer service, being flexible to the needs of the business, maintaining in‑stock levels and controlling shrinkage.
• Be an Expert: Plans bakery production ensuring consistency in quality and accuracy of decorative designs, follows recipe measurement instructions, works with a variety of products (decorating bags, tips, nozzles) to create flowers and lettering on bakery items, ensures adherence to food safety standards, sanitation guidelines, cold‑chain compliance and inventory management; operates, maintains and sanitizes equipment and demonstrates understanding of product and layout execution.
• Be a Techie: Leverages digital tools to drive sales, improve the shopping experience and elevate associate engagement. Utilizes handheld technology to make immediate business decisions related to production, merchandise ordering, training and product quality, with the member in mind; adapts to new tools and encourages others to use them.
• Be an Owner: Drives the bakery area’s performance by ensuring quality and date‑control standards, eliminating waste, and preparing for seasonal events that impact volume (holidays, graduations, family events). Identifies member needs, assists members with purchasing decisions and resolves member issues and concerns.
• Be a Talent Ambassador: Acts as a brand advocate by valuing the member experience in the bakery and modeling high‑quality service and products. Interacts with associates to understand roadblocks, assists in training, develops, influences and inspires them to work in a respectful, supportive and team‑oriented style.
• Compliance & Process: Implements company policies, procedures and the standards of ethics and integrity, using action plans and the Open Door Policy to drive business processes and practices.
• Priority Management: Completes work assignments using policies, data and resources; collaborates with managers, coworkers, customers and partners, identifies priorities, deadlines and expectations, communicates progress, recommends improvement opportunities and adapts to change.
• Respect the Individual – Diversity: Embraces differences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging, and helps attract top talent.
• Respect the Individual – Teamwork: Builds strong, trusting relationships and communicates with impact, energy and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Respect the Individual – Mentoring: Strengthens the team by helping develop and mentor others, recognizing contributions and accomplishments.
• Integrity: Maintains the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models Walmart values, holds oneself and others accountable and supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by positively impacting associates, customers, members and the world.
• Integrity – Humility: Acts with humility, self‑awareness, honesty, fairness and transparency.
• Serve Customers & Members – Results: Delivers results while putting the customer first.
• Serve Customers & Members – Decision Making: Makes decisions based on reliable information, balances short‑ and long‑term priorities and considers how own work impacts the team's ability to deliver our purpose for all stakeholders.
• Strive for Excellence – Learning: Displays curiosity, a desire to learn, takes calculated risks and demonstrates courage and resilience.
• Strive for Excellence – Improvement: Drives continuous improvement, is open to new technologies and skills and supports others through change.

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. PTO and/or PPTO can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays or other purposes; the amount received depends on job classification and length of employment and meets or exceeds requirements of paid sick leave laws where applicable.
• Other benefits include short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Live Better U is a company‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books and fees are completely paid by Walmart.
• Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

The hourly wage range for this position is $19.00 to $27.00. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Six months’ experience in a fresh production area.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must successfully complete all required trainings and assessments within a prescribed time period.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cake decorating skills.

Primary Location: 6016 MARSHA SHARP FWY, LUBBOCK, TX 79407‑3730, United States of America.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.