Bakery Clerk

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Win Co Foods is a rapidly growing family of over 138 grocery stores, complete with our own distribution centers and transportation network. We’re proud to operate across 10 states west of the Rockies with more than 21,000 employee owners.

At Win Co Foods we act like owners – because we are! We believe, as the Low Price Grocery Leader, that we make the lives of the communities where we operate better by giving them the best possible prices to feed their families and by focusing on the success, well-being and diversity of our employee owners.

Currently, Win Co is the third largest Employee-Owned company in the United States. Win Co has more than 500 millionaire employee-owners in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Once eligible, you can start your journey to ownership with an annual gift of stock equaling 20% of what you make each year. (ESOP available at most locations and subject to vesting)

Win Co Foods offers the very best benefits in the industry, with low cost, high quality medical benefits with rates as low as $40 a month , enrollment in our ESOP after 6 months, career advancement opportunities, paid vacation and sick leave, competitive wages, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance, discount program – and even voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance!

Job Summary

Scales, mixes and bakes various bakery goods. Maintains proper inventory levels of products and ensures the cleanliness and appearance of the bakery department meets standards. Consistently provides friendly, courteous service to internal and external customers. Performs other related work.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Seeks opportunities to welcome, engage, serve and thank customers. Maintains an atmosphere of friendly, enthusiastic customer service with an emphasis of taking care of the customer.
• Produce bakery products for retail stores.
• Operate and clean equipment and work area. Maintains clean, safe and sanitary bakery area and equipment.
• Package all fresh products following all packaging /handling procedures.
• Ensure quality of goods by following code.
• Mixes icing or other toppings by scaling and measuring ingredients, operating a mixer, reading the recipe, occasionally lifting 50 lbs. bags of sugar, shortening, and flour.
• Dumps icing or other toppings into large storage containers.
• Sets-up cakes by taking liner off, putting icing between layers of numerous items (i.e., 50 cakes at a time).
• Ices cakes by taking icing out of the container, combining the icing onto the cake, lifting buckets, bordering, placing specific decorations, etc. for numerous items (i.e., 50 cakes at a time).
• Packages cakes by placing in box.
• Labels bakery items by inputting data into DiGi machine for scanning, placing a label on container, etc.
• Displays products on shelves by placing them in an appealing manner and using FIFO for rotation.
• Takes orders by phone and in person from customers. Special orders by following orders from customers; using an air brush machine, tubes, tips, etc.
• Personalizes cakes by writing the desired words of the customer.
• Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast, friendly customer service.
• Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques in person, over the telephone and over the in-store intercom.
• Displays goods by following packaging/handling procedures. Follows company guidelines for setting up and maintaining stock, cleanliness and appeal of product show cases, display tables, and special displays; proper signing procedures, etc.
• Assists customers with inquiries (i.e., special orders for cakes and other bakery items) by knowing current pricing, ingredients, availability of product, advertised merchandise, etc.
• Ensures quality of goods by following code dating procedures and legal regulations or labeling and packaging for all in-store bakery products.
• Ensures quantity of goods is available by keeping manager informed of stock levels, accurately filling out inventory and production sheets as scheduled.
• Produce breads/rolls by mixing recipes. Setting up racks and pans, setting up machines, operating…