Bakery Clerk

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service.

• Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions.

• Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately. Receive and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to Store Director as needed.

• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction. Answers questions regarding ingredients, price, and freshness of products.

• Helps customers with special orders for cakes and other bakery items, including adding personalization to baked items. May be asked to write messages on cakes with icing.

• Implements proper and efficient product preparation and packaging techniques.

• Maintains Bakery case cleanliness, sample tray, visual appeal, and inventory levels. Responsible for ensuring the proper cleanliness, sanitation and appearance of bakery area and equipment and for ensuring a safe work environment.

• Slices bread and prepares all bakery items, including proofing, baking, packaging, and icing product.

• Ensures temperatures are maintained in all phases of preparation, display, and storage.

• May assist with physical inventory taken every 4 weeks.

• Controls inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes cooler.

• Understands opening and closing department procedures.

• Builds displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department.

• Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced.

• Ability to follow and maintain department standards.

• Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays.

• Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortage, stocking, and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records.

• Accurately completes, maintains, and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs.

• Controls shrink and cost.

• Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, Company, and code dating policies.

• Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations.

• Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, prep area and display area, including code date compliance as required.

• Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity.

• Other necessary and required duties.

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain professional demeanor regarding customers and co-workers.

• Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Bakery Department policies and procedures.

• Ability to frequently reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 60 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare, package and display products.

• Comply with company grooming standards and dress code.

• Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary. Able to stand for long periods of time.

• Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures.

• Operates telephones, pallet jack, hand truck, knives, scissors, safety cutters, bread slicer, photo cake machine, mixer, microwave oven, ovens, and proof boxes. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment. Requires handling of latex products.

• Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order product.

• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required.

• Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties.

What you bring to the table:

• You take pride in the work you do, whether big or small.
• You agree that food is central to all our lives.
• Helping customers and fellow associates gives you energy.
• Smiling and making others smile is your favorite.
• You are eager, willing, and wanting to learn & grow.
• You believe that being a part of your community matters.

Why you will choose us:

Albertsons Companies Inc. has always been a people-oriented business, and thoughtful people practices remain a core element of our company’s philosophy. Our goal is to continue to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being and that starts with people like you bringing your unique self to our company and making it one person stronger and better!

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Diverse and Inclusive work culture
• Competitive Wages paid weekly
• Flexible work schedules
• Associate discounts
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth & development.
• Health and welfare benefits for eligible employees (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Vacation / Paid Time Off

Our Values

• We put people first.
• We are customer driven.
• We value different perspectives.
• We raise the bar.
• We act as owners.
• We are one team.
• We build belonging.
• We are committed to a healthy future.

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About Us: Albertsons Companies is committed to bringing people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being by transforming the grocery and pharmacy-health experience for our customers. Each day, we work to earn customers for life. & Albertsons Companies is a leading food and drug retailer in the United States. The Company operated 2,271 retail stores with 1,722 pharmacies, 401 associated fuel centers, 22 dedicated distribution centers and 19 manufacturing facilities. The Company operates stores across 34 states and the District of Columbia with 24 banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. The Company is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood. In 2022, along with the Albertsons Companies & Foundation, the Company contributed more than $200 million in food and financial support, including more than $40 million through our Nourishing Neighbors Program to ensure those living in our communities and those impacted by disasters have enough to eat. & Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process. & Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.& & We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at 1-888-255-2269(option #4).