Baker Specialist

Job Description: As a baker at Bashas', you will be responsible for producing high-quality baked goods and related products in an efficient manner. Your focus will be on providing customers with excellent service and ensuring that all products meet our high standards of quality and freshness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.
• Engage with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information and providing selling suggestions.
• Mix, weigh, proof, bake, fry, decorate, finish, and merchandise quality bakery products using Bashas' recipes.
• Load and unload the oven, knowing the proper temperatures and duration to bake all varieties of product.
• Scale cakes and cupcakes, ice sweet rolls, breads, and cookies, etc.
• Assist in the ordering and receiving of bakery products and supplies.
• Control product inventory and out of stocks, shrink, and supplies.
• Use a scale printer machine to ensure weights and pricing are correct.
• Understand the importance of product pricing, signage, and placement, as well as the use of product shelf tags and shelf signage.
• Keep a clean, neat, and orderly bench, production area, storage area, and walk-in coolers and freezers.
• Help with the wrapping, boxing, weighing, slicing, finishing, and stocking bakery department products, rotating them as necessary to ensure quality and safety.
• Display goods following bakery department and/or merchandising guidelines.
• Help decorators with personalization of cakes and icing of cakes, donuts, sweet rolls, and etc.

Job Qualifications:

• Remain helpful, tactful, and courteous with both customers and team members.
• Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.
• Add, subtract, divide, multiply, and perform other basic business math calculations.
• Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures.
• Be knowledgeable of a wide variety of general department products, including their locations in the store.
• Memorize product locations.
• Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters.
• Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions, and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary.
• Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members.
• Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30-50lbs.
• Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100lbs while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes, and bags.
• Operate manual and electric pallet jacks.
• Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers.
• If called upon, night crew clerks may need to learn the use of cash registers.