Bakery Staff

Job Summary of Bakery Staff:

Serving as a Bakery Staff entails reviewing daily orders, preparing and restocking items in a prompt, proficient, and amicable manner. Additionally, it is essential to project a positive corporate image by providing respectful, welcoming, and efficient customer service to both customers and fellow team members. Within Hy-Vee, our employees serve as the backbone of the company. We commit to offering a pleasant and supportive environment, which is only made possible through a workforce that is fully engaged and dedicated to aiding our customers and colleagues. Core competencies include forming strong partnerships, maintaining a growth-oriented mindset, prioritizing achieving results, focusing on customer satisfaction, and demonstrating professionalism.

Responsibilities of Bakery Staff:

• Ensuring quick, effective, and approachable customer support by displaying empathy, attentiveness, and perseverance in every customer transaction, while prioritizing customers as the main focus in the establishment.
• Engages with customers in a friendly manner by offering smiles and greetings, whether they are in the employee's designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Engages in the practice of recalling and using customers' names as a sign of respect and attentiveness.
• Escorts clients to locate desired products, retrieves items that are out of reach, assists in lifting heavy objects, takes note of customer feedback, and performs additional tasks to enrich the shopping journey.
• Evaluates the freshness of the food by reviewing its appearance and quality.
• Assesses the daily inventory requirements.
• Accepting and documenting customer requests at the bakery counter.
• Collaborates with colleagues to contribute to customer satisfaction and establish a positive work environment.
• Understands the significance of proper sanitation practices and consistently ensures that the work environment is orderly and hygienic.
• Secures a reliable food inventory and organizes production tasks accordingly.
• Forecasts the department's daily product necessities.
• Arranges, finalizes, and replenishes items as needed.
• Pulls product from cooler/freezer to prepare for baking.
• Inspects items for accuracy, stores them, and potentially examines billing statements.
• Oversees the department's registers and handles payment transactions, making change as necessary.
• Removes rubbish in a timely fashion.
• Adheres strictly to departmental and company guidelines regarding personal cleanliness and dress standards.
• Demonstrates reliability by adhering to scheduled work times.
• Secures products and supplies by placing necessary orders.
• Calculates prices for products based on customer specifications.
• Executing deliveries as requested.
• Supports in various store areas as requested.
• Takes on other job-related duties and specific projects as required.

Qualifications of Bakery Staff:

• People with minimal schooling or its equivalent
• Equivalent work familiarity lasting less than half a year.
• Having the skill to implement detailed but disengaged written or oral instructions and navigate through a limited number of concrete variables is crucial.
• Skill in completing simple addition and subtraction tasks; mimicking shapes, calculating, and transcribing.
• Show proficiency in interpreting and obeying spoken or illustrated guidance; transcribe relevant particulars; ask for supplies verbally or in documented form.

Physical Requirements of Bakery Staff:

• Essential to be physically adept at performing moderate work, with requirements including exerting a maximum of 50 pounds of force from time to time, 20 pounds of force often, and 10 pounds of force consistently for object manipulation.
• Visual prerequisites encompass the clarity of vision at distances greater than 20 inches but less than 20 feet, with or without assistance, color discernment, depth awareness, and field of vision.
• Candidates need to possess the physical capabilities to execute activities such as ascending, maintaining equilibrium, hunching, bending the knees, stretching out, remaining upright, moving, propelling, pulling, lifting, grabbing, touching, conversing, hearing, and making recurrent movements.

Working Conditions of Bakery Staff:

• The duties for this position are normally conducted in a store environment.
• There is significant pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities.
• There is exposure to flour dust, noise, cleaning chemicals/solvents, electrical shock and temperature extremes.

Apparatus Used in Performing Job Tasks:

• The standard tools and gear in a bakery workspace consist of mixers and ovens, pivotal for baking operations
• wrapping
• label printer
• cash register
• telephone
• dishwasher
• bread slicer
• electric knife
• microwave
• The process of airbrushing and replicating another's artwork.