Bakery Production Clerk

Job Summary of Bakery Production Clerk:

The primary role of a Bakery Production Clerk is to assess daily requisitions, prepare and replenish goods efficiently, promptly, and with a kind demeanor. Moreover, ensuring a favorable company perception by offering courteous, welcoming, and effective service to both customers and team members is crucial. At Hy-Vee, our personnel stands as a pillar of strength within the organization. We pledge to maintain a cheerful demeanor in all interactions, and such positivity can only be sustained through a workforce that is entirely engaged and devoted to aiding our clientele and each other. Essential skills consist of fostering partnerships, possessing a growth-oriented mindset, emphasizing achieving results, a strong focus on customer satisfaction, and displaying professionalism.

Responsibilities of Bakery Production Clerk:

• Ensuring swift, effective, and congenial customer assistance by displaying compassion, attentiveness, and understanding in all customer dealings, with a focus on treating customers as the foremost priority in the store.
• Offers friendly greetings and smiles to patrons, regardless of whether they are in the employee's designated area or elsewhere in the store.
• Demonstrates a commitment to learning and utilizing customers' names in interactions.
• Aids patrons in finding their desired products, retrieving out-of-reach items, assisting with heavy lifting, noting customer input, and completing various tasks to enrich the overall shopping encounter.
• Assesses the state and look of the food in terms of its freshness.
• Examines the daily orders.
• Receiving and processing customer requests at the bakery counter.
• Engages with team members to guarantee client contentment and promote a harmonious work setting.
• Comprehends and implements appropriate hygiene protocols and guarantees that the working environment remains orderly and hygienic.
• Guarantees the presence of an ample food stock and prepares according to a production schedule.
• Keeps track of the department's daily product demands.
• Gets products ready, completes tasks, and restocks supplies as required.
• Pulls product from cooler/freezer to prepare for baking.
• Verifies merchandise, organizes it, and possibly evaluates payment records.
• Oversees the department's registers and handles payment transactions, making change as necessary.
• Cleans up waste promptly.
• Maintains a high level of compliance with department and corporate standards concerning personal grooming and clothing.
• Arrives at work as per scheduled times consistently.
• Procures products and supplies through necessary orders.
• Determines appropriate pricing for products to meet customer requirements.
• Transporting orders as necessary.
• Offers assistance in different departments of the store as necessary.
• Executes various tasks and special assignments as necessary.

Qualifications of Bakery Production Clerk:

• Less than High school or equivalent experience
• Six months of less of similar or related work experience.
• Must have the ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or verbal instructions; deal with a few concrete variables.
• Ability to do simple addition and subtraction; copying figures, counting and recording.
• Possess the ability to understand and follow verbal or demonstrated instructions; write identifying information; request supplies orally or in writing.

Physical Requirements of Bakery Production Clerk:

• Capable of undertaking medium-level physical activities, necessitating the application of up to 50 pounds of force periodically, 20 pounds of force regularly, and 10 pounds of force continuously for the relocation of items.
• The ability to see clearly at distances exceeding 20 inches but less than 20 feet, with or without visual aids, along with color perception, depth judgment, and peripheral vision are all essential visual criteria.
• This position demands capability in activities like ascending, steadying, bending over, genuflecting, stretching, remaining erect, ambling, shoving, dragging, raising, clutching, sensing, conversing, hearing, and repetitive movements.

Working Conditions of Bakery Production Clerk:

• The tasks for this job are usually carried out in a storefront atmosphere.
• The expectation to meet deadlines and juggle numerous responsibilities is substantial.
• Risk exists from inhaling flour particles, loud sounds, chemical cleaners/solvents, electric shock, and extreme temperatures.

Instruments Employed in Job Performance:

• Mixers and ovens are fundamental implements found in a typical bakery environment to facilitate baking tasks
• wrapping
• label printer
• cash register
• telephone
• dishwasher
• bread slicer
• electric knife
• microwave
• The use of airbrush techniques and copying others' creations.