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Bakery Cake Designer

Cottage Grove, Minnesota•Full-time
$17 - $21.25 hourly
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About the Job
Job Description:
Job Title: Bakery Cake Designer
Department: Bakery
FLSA: Non-Exempt

General Function:
Responsible for decorating bakery items. You will assist customers with their bakery orders by the telephone and in person at the store. Additionally you will ensure a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient customer service to customers and team members.

Core Competencies:
  • Partnerships.
  • Growth mindset.
  • Results oriented.
  • Customer focused.
  • Professionalism.

Reporting Relations:
  • Accountable and Reports to: District Store Director, Store Manager, Assistant Managers of; Perishables, Store Operations, and Health Wellness Home; Bakery Department Manager
  • Positions that Report to you: None

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
  • Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
  • Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
  • Assists customers by: (examples include)
    • escorting them to the products they’re looking for.
    • securing products that are out of reach.
    • loading or unloading heavy items.
    • performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
  • Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call including taking product orders.
  • Takes customer orders at Bakery counter.
  • Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment.
  • Checks orders for the day and sets up a timeline and production schedule.
  • Decorates bakery items in a timely manner.
  • Keeps current on new designs and trends.
  • Ensures department standards are met.
  • Checks cake orders for details (size, deco pack, icing needs, dates) daily and indicates supply needs.
  • Orders supplies for decorating area and checks off the order.
  • Delivers product and sets up wedding cakes on site (outside the store).
  • Communicates with bakery manager regarding displays, weekly ads and special needs on a daily basis.
  • Checks product dates, pulls cases for work and lists items to fill or replace.
  • Develops bakery orders for bakers on a daily basis. (Orders cakes, sizes, etc.)
  • Tracks daily retail production. Identifies, with co-workers, tasks to be completed.
  • Operates as a lead worker with part-time or other employees. (Instructs and reviews work).
  • Participates in employee cross training.
  • Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
  • Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
  • Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
  • Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Wraps all product as necessary.
  • Assists in other areas of the store as needed.
  • Performs other job related duties and special projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics:
  • Must have the ability to solve practical problems; variety of variables with limited standardization; interpret instructions.
  • Ability to do arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals, and percentages
  • Must have the ability to file, post, and mail materials; copy data from one record to another; interview to obtain basic information; guide people and provide basic direction.

Education and Experience:
  • High school or equivalent experience and six months or less of similar or related work experience.

Physical Requirements:
  • Must be physically able to exert up to 100 pounds of force (shared team lifting) occasionally; exert up to 50 pounds of force frequently; and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
  • Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches and more than 20 feet with or without correction, color vision, depth perception, and field of vision.
  • Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions:
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, residual fumes and temperature extreme.

Equipment Used to Perform Job:
Standard tools and equipment used in a bakery environment including mixers, ovens, turntables, tips, bas, airbrush telephone copy cake machine, intercom system.

Contacts:
Has daily contact with the general public taking orders. Has weekly contact with suppliers/vendors.

The anticipated hourly starting wage for this position is $17.00 to $21.25 depending on experience.

For information on company benefits visit Benefits | Hy-Vee.

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Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre employment drug screen.
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