Whole Foods Market Careers – Bakery Cake Decorator

Job Description:

Performs all duties related to cake, tart, pastry, and special-order decoration. Creates appealing designs on all specialty bakery goods. All Whole Foods Market Retail jobs require ensuring a positive company image by providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to customers and Team Members at all times. All positions must be performed in accordance with team and store Standard Operating Procedures. Further, Team Members must be prepared and able to perform the duties inherent in other Team Member job descriptions. All positions must strive to support WFM core values and goals, promote national, regional, and store programs and initiatives, and ensure adherence to all applicable health and safety regulations including Food Safety and regulatory duties required in the department.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned by store, regional, or national leadership.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Completes production and spoilage records, adjusting production sheets to maintain sufficient product.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Monitors product quality for freshness and ensures proper product rotation.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.
• Produces in-house products to daily par levels, as specified on production sheets.
• Creatively decorates all cakes, tarts, pastries, and special-order items.
• Assists with production of all mandatory bakery products (i.e. parfaits, bars, cupcakes).
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Prepares, packages, weighs, and prices bakery products for sale.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.

Job Requirements:

• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.
• Passion for natural foods and the mission of Whole Foods Market.
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency.
• Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
• Understanding of and compliance with WFM quality goals.
• Ability to work in wet and dry conditions.
• Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
• Thorough product knowledge.
• Ability to use tools and equipment, including knives, box cutters, electric pallet jacks, and other heavy machinery.
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
• In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
• Basic math skills for recipe conversions and modifications.
• Exposure to temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Good cake decorating skills (ability to make flowers and decorative borders; knowledge of elegant piping techniques).
• Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
• Ability to follow directions and established procedures.
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.

Job Details:

Company: Whole Foods

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Application Deadline: N/A

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