Whole Foods Market Careers – 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:

• Completes production and spoilage records, adjusting production sheets to maintain sufficient product.
• 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.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Monitors product quality for freshness and ensures proper product rotation.
• 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.
• Produces in-house products to daily par levels, as specified on production sheets.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Creatively decorates all cakes, tarts, pastries, and special-order items.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Assists with production of all mandatory bakery products (i.e. parfaits, bars, cupcakes).

Job Requirements:

• Understanding of and compliance with WFM quality goals.
• Good cake decorating skills (ability to make flowers and decorative borders; knowledge of elegant piping techniques).
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency.
• Strong to excellent communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Thorough product knowledge.
• Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.
• Passion for natural foods and the mission of Whole Foods Market.
• Basic math skills for recipe conversions and modifications.
• Ability to meet customer service expectations and standards in all interactions with customers, vendors, and Team Members.
• Ability to follow directions and established procedures.
• Ability to follow directions and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.

Qualification & Experience:

• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Ability to use tools and equipment, including knives, box cutters, electric pallet jacks, and other heavy machinery.
• Exposure to FDA approved cleaning chemicals.
• In an 8-hour work day: standing/walking 6-8 hours.
• Exposure to temperatures: <32 degrees Fahrenheit (freezing), 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit (refrigerators), >90 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Work requires the following motions: bending, twisting, squatting and reaching.
• Ability to work in wet and dry conditions.
• Hand use: single grasping, fine manipulation, pushing and pulling.
• May require use of ladders.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Job Details:

Company: Whole Foods Market

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Other

Job Location: Albuquerque, NM, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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