ShopRite - Cake Decorator (Inserra NJ) Salary Range $15.92 - $20.00/hr
Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Hourly
Compensation
Hourly
Range $15.92 - $20.00
Work Schedule
Standard Hours
Benefits
Dental Insurance
401(k)
Paid Time Off
Vision Insurance
Life insurance
Job Description
ShopRite is a leading supermarket chain dedicated to serving customers with high-quality products and exceptional service. Known for its commitment to the community and customer satisfaction, ShopRite emphasizes its purpose to care deeply about people, helping them to eat well and be happy. This purpose drives the company's operations and culture, ensuring that every team member works towards creating a positive shopping experience guided by the service priorities of safety, friendliness, presentation, and efficiency. With numerous locations, ShopRite operates in a fast-paced retail environment focused on providing fresh and diverse food selections, including a wide variety of bakery items that meet customer tastes and health standards.
The Bakery Department at ShopRite plays a crucial role in this mission. The position of Bakery Associate is vital to the daily operations of the department, supporting the Bakery Manager in producing, packaging, and displaying freshly baked goods. This role involves a blend of hands-on baking tasks such as mixing dough, icing, filling, and decorating pastry and bread items, alongside maintaining cleanliness, safety, and presentation standards within the bakery area. The Bakery Associate ensures that products are prepared according to specific recipes and that the department adheres strictly to quality assurance guidelines and health regulations. The position demands a strong attention to detail and the ability to work efficiently in a team-focused environment while engaging courteously with customers.
The role also includes responsibilities related to inventory management, equipment operation, sanitation, and compliance with company policies and regulatory standards. Associates must be physically capable of handling tasks involving lifting, standing for extended periods, and working in varying temperatures. The company values associates who are friendly, reliable, and cooperative, maintaining the high standards that ShopRite customers expect. As part of a unionized environment, the position offers benefits such as vision, dental, life insurance, legal plans, paid time off, and retirement options that accrue according to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The Bakery Associate role is essential for ensuring that customers enjoy fresh, attractive baked goods in a clean and welcoming bakery setting, with opportunities for ongoing training and career growth within ShopRite's supportive workplace culture.
The Bakery Department at ShopRite plays a crucial role in this mission. The position of Bakery Associate is vital to the daily operations of the department, supporting the Bakery Manager in producing, packaging, and displaying freshly baked goods. This role involves a blend of hands-on baking tasks such as mixing dough, icing, filling, and decorating pastry and bread items, alongside maintaining cleanliness, safety, and presentation standards within the bakery area. The Bakery Associate ensures that products are prepared according to specific recipes and that the department adheres strictly to quality assurance guidelines and health regulations. The position demands a strong attention to detail and the ability to work efficiently in a team-focused environment while engaging courteously with customers.
The role also includes responsibilities related to inventory management, equipment operation, sanitation, and compliance with company policies and regulatory standards. Associates must be physically capable of handling tasks involving lifting, standing for extended periods, and working in varying temperatures. The company values associates who are friendly, reliable, and cooperative, maintaining the high standards that ShopRite customers expect. As part of a unionized environment, the position offers benefits such as vision, dental, life insurance, legal plans, paid time off, and retirement options that accrue according to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The Bakery Associate role is essential for ensuring that customers enjoy fresh, attractive baked goods in a clean and welcoming bakery setting, with opportunities for ongoing training and career growth within ShopRite's supportive workplace culture.
Job Requirements
- Ability to proficiently read, write, speak, analyze, interpret, and understand the English language
- Ability to assist the Bakery Manager
- Ability to stand, bend, twist, reach, push, pull and regularly lift 25 lbs, and occasionally lift up to 50 lbs
- Ability to work in varying temperatures
- Ability to work with fresh, dried and/or processed products, spices and powdered substances without negative allergic consequences
- Ability to tolerate dust and cleaning agents during routine housekeeping duties
- Ability to interact with customers in a friendly and helpful way
- Ability to work cooperatively with others
- Ability to work all assigned work schedules and comply with all time and attendance policies
- Must be 18 years or older to operate balers, hi-lo’s, power jacks, and slicing machines
Job Qualifications
- Ability to proficiently read, write, speak, analyze, interpret, and understand the English language
- Ability to assist the Bakery Manager
- Ability to interact with customers in a friendly and helpful way
- Ability to work cooperatively with others
- Knowledge of bakery products and preparation techniques
- Familiarity with safety and sanitation standards
- Ability to follow recipes and operational procedures
- Good physical stamina and ability to stand for long periods
- Basic math skills for inventory and measurements
Job Duties
- Maintain a clean, neat, organized and safe work environment
- Maintain department sanitation and QA standards including safety, personal hygiene, clean cases, and equipment
- Clean and sanitize all work surfaces, utensils and equipment
- Keep floor clear of debris and spills
- Greet all customers and provide them with prompt, courteous service and assistance
- Maintain and properly use all department equipment as required
- Pack out product into display cases
- Rotate product to ensure freshness
- Ensure accurate signage for the department
- Prepare trays to company’s and customer’s satisfaction
- Perform all duties in accordance with local, state and federal regulations as they pertain to the bakery operation
- Dress and groom according to company policy including uniform, name badge and hat or hair restraint requirements
- Perform duties in accordance with QA hand washing standards and use disposable gloves when handling food
- Follow recipes to produce food products of specified flavor, texture, clarity, bouquet, or color
- Follow and adhere to weights and measures guidelines established by federal, state, local and civic standards
- Set up, operate, and tend equipment that cooks, mixes, blends or processes ingredients in the production of food products, according to formulas or recipes
- Rotate all merchandise in accordance with quality assurance standards to ensure freshness
- Prepare special order requests, as required
- Track movement of sales on production logs
- Take a complete & accurate inventory of supplies weekly and re-order supplies and ingredients as needed
- Check prices and be knowledgeable about location of items in the store
- Promote for sale any current charitable promotions to customers
- Stand at work station for duration of scheduled shift, which may exceed 8 hours per day
- Receive deliveries
- Place reclamation in its proper location
- Regularly lift, pull, push and rotate merchandise that weights 25 lbs, and that occasionally weights up to 50 lbs
- Unload trucks and transport merchandise to Bakery Department that weights 25 lbs, and that occasionally weights up to 50 lbs
- Assist in other departments when instructed
- Perform all duties in accordance with company rules, policies, safety requirements, and security standards and all local, state and federal health and civil code regulations
- Perform duties in accordance with the company’s HAZCOM program and adhere to manufacturer’s label instructions for the safe and proper use of all chemical products
- Follow approved procedures for receiving, code dating, preparing, storing, and price marking, arranging, and restocking products to ensure quality, accuracy and product rotation and protection
- Handle damaged and spoiled products according to company policy and assist in controlling the level of damaged goods
- Understand and adhere to company shrink guidelines as relates to Bakery department operations
- Check refrigeration equipment for proper performance regularly
- Report any failure immediately
- Utilize and maintain equipment as required by department
- Report any equipment problems immediately
- Complete all applicable department training programs
- Perform all duties in accordance all ShopRite Service Priorities (Safety, Friendliness, Presentation, and Efficiency)
- Maintain punctual and regular attendance
- Work overtime as assigned
- Work cooperatively with others
- Must be 18 years or older to operate balers, hi-lo’s, power jacks, and slicing machines
- Perform other duties as assigned
Job Criteria
Experience
Entry Level (1-2 years)
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