
Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Hourly
Exact $15.92
Work Schedule
Standard Hours
Benefits
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Life insurance
legal plan
Paid Time Off
Retirement benefits
Job Description
ShopRite is a leading supermarket chain committed to providing high-quality groceries and exceptional customer service across its numerous locations. With a strong community focus, ShopRite emphasizes its core values centered around caring deeply for people, helping them to eat well, and fostering happiness in their daily lives. The company operates with service priorities that include safety, friendliness, presentation, and efficiency, which are integrated into every aspect of their operations to ensure customer satisfaction and business success. ShopRite's bakery department plays a critical role in delivering fresh, delicious baked goods that meet the needs and desires of their customers. Employees are encouraged to work cooperatively within a supportive environment that values cleanliness, safety, and high-quality product standards. The position described is a Bakery Team Member role, vital to the smooth functioning of the bakery department. This role involves assisting the Bakery Manager in the daily operations including baking, mixing dough, icing, packaging, filling, and decorating designated pastry and bread items. The Team Member will be responsible for maintaining a neat, organized, and visually appealing department that aligns with company food safety and sanitation policies. The job requires physical activity such as standing for the duration of an assigned shift, lifting and moving ingredients and products up to 50 pounds, and working in various temperature-controlled conditions typical of bakery environments. Employees must adhere to strict hygiene standards, follow recipes accurately, rotate products for freshness, and utilize equipment properly to ensure quality and safety. The role includes customer interaction duties such as greeting customers, providing courteous service, answering product-related questions, and promoting current charity campaigns. The candidate must also comply with company policies on uniform and grooming standards, and perform routine housekeeping tasks to uphold workplace cleanliness. This full-time position offers a comprehensive benefits package including vision, dental, life insurance, and legal plan benefits that become available on a graduated basis over time, as outlined by the collective bargaining agreement. Paid time off encompassing sick leave, personal and vacation days, as well as holidays, accrues gradually according to the terms of the agreement. Retirement benefits through a pension plan or 401(k) are also part of the compensation package. ShopRite values punctuality, regular attendance, and teamwork, with an emphasis on safety and efficient work practices. The Bakery Team Member role provides a dynamic and rewarding work environment focused on quality service, product excellence, and community engagement, making it an excellent opportunity for motivated individuals seeking growth within the food retail industry.
Job Requirements
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent
- 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
Job Qualifications
- 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
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 and customer 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 and 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 including 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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