Lead Pastry Specialist - Times Supermarkets
Honolulu, HI 96814
About the Job
Job Title: Lead Pastry Specialist
Department: Bakery
Reports to: Store Director and Kitchen Manager
Starting rate of pay: $18.25/hr
Company Benefits:
• Flexible Hours
• Employee Discount
• 10 Paid Holidays (including 2 days for your birthday)*
• Medical/Vision/Dental Package*
• Free Life Insurance*
• Vacation and Sick Leave*
• Voluntary Insurance Plans (Life, Disability, Cancer, Accidental)
• Long Term Disability
• Wellness Program
• Discounted Gym membership-(YMCA)
• Matching 401K*
• Management Bonuses*
*For qualifying positions
Position Summary: Responsible for all aspects of the bakery department. Responsible for all preparation of quality bakery products for sale by the Bakery department, while providing customer service.
Job duties:
- Provides friendly and courteous service to our customers.
- Takes orders and practices suggestive selling techniques.
- Skillfully proofs and or bakes bakery items for display.
- Decorates and finishes cakes, pies, and desserts.
- Neatly writes on cakes upon customer requests.
- Uses 20qt mixer to prepare fillings and frostings.
- Accurately takes phone orders and/or phone messages.
- Is knowledgeable and can describe bakery items and on going promotions proficiently.
- Properly rotates bakery items to ensure quality and freshness of products.
- Conducts floor checks, ensuring that the shelves are adequately stocked, products merchandised
- properly rotated, price integrity enforced according to company standards in bakery department
- May directly train and help develop employees.
- Maintains a safe and sanitary work environment through clean as you go method
- Fosters a harmonious positive work environment.
- Organize, and replenish necessary ingredient and supply items.
- Ensures all company programs, philosophies and company image are carried out and maintained and fosters good relationships in the community, and collaborates with business partners.
- Occasional receiving of merchandise with or without the DSD (direct store delivery) gun.
- Periodic taking of, downloading and auditing inventories.
- Any tasks as deemed necessary by management
Capabilities:
- 18 years of age or older (operates heavy machinery)
- Must be able to safely lift 50 lbs unassisted
- Stands for extended periods of time with frequent bending and stooping required during the course of the workday
- Requires manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination for various activities.
Additional Requirements:
- Previous experience working with the public
- Time management skills
- Proper knife skills and proper sanitation knowledge
- Ability to read and understand recipes and measuring quantities.
- May require working occasional longer shifts (10 hours) due to business needs
- May require working overnight, early mornings, evenings, weekends and holidays
Environment:
- Air condition while in store, subject to heat when baking and chill temperatures if products need to be retrieved from chill
- Must be able to work under extreme temperatures (Hot oven and freezers)
- Very fast paced
Other
- Must be 18 years of age to operate machinery
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