Safeway · 2 hours ago
Bakery Clerk- Phoenix Talent Hub
Glendale, AZ
Part-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelSafeway is a people-oriented business focused on bringing people together around the joys of food. The Bakery Clerk is responsible for providing excellent customer service, maintaining cleanliness in the bakery area, and preparing bakery items while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
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Responsibilities
Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service
Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions
Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately. Receive and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to Store Director as needed
Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction. Answers questions regarding ingredients, price, and freshness of products
Helps customers with special orders for cakes and other bakery items, including adding personalization to baked items. May be asked to write messages on cakes with icing
Implements proper and efficient product preparation and packaging techniques
Maintains Bakery case cleanliness, sample tray, visual appeal, and inventory levels. Responsible for ensuring the proper cleanliness, sanitation and appearance of bakery area and equipment and for ensuring a safe work environment
Slices bread and prepares all bakery items, including proofing, baking, packaging, and icing product
Ensures temperatures are maintained in all phases of preparation, display, and storage
May assist with physical inventory taken every 4 weeks
Controls inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes cooler
Understands opening and closing department procedures
Builds displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department
Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced
Ability to follow and maintain department standards
Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays
Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortage, stocking, and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records
Accurately completes, maintains, and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs
Controls shrink and cost
Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, Company, and code dating policies
Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations
Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, prep area and display area, including code date compliance as required
Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity
Other necessary and required duties
Qualification
Required
Maintains an atmosphere of enthusiastic customer awareness with an emphasis on providing fast and friendly Customer Service
Assists customers by making product suggestions, filling special orders and food preparation suggestions
Answers and responds to incoming calls appropriately. Receive and appropriately resolves customer complaints and reports to Store Director as needed
Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques via telephone, in-store intercom, and one-on-one customer interaction. Answers questions regarding ingredients, price, and freshness of products
Helps customers with special orders for cakes and other bakery items, including adding personalization to baked items. May be asked to write messages on cakes with icing
Implements proper and efficient product preparation and packaging techniques
Maintains Bakery case cleanliness, sample tray, visual appeal, and inventory levels. Responsible for ensuring the proper cleanliness, sanitation and appearance of bakery area and equipment and for ensuring a safe work environment
Slices bread and prepares all bakery items, including proofing, baking, packaging, and icing product
Ensures temperatures are maintained in all phases of preparation, display, and storage
May assist with physical inventory taken every 4 weeks
Controls inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintains inventory levels according to division directives. Stocks and rotates product. Maintains and organizes cooler
Understands opening and closing department procedures
Builds displays, rotates and discards outdated or spoiled product. Ensures cleanliness of work area and department
Responsible for ensuring proper code dating for all products within the department are being enforced
Ability to follow and maintain department standards
Implements effective promotional and seasonal displays
Performs receiving duties including breaking downloads, verifying orders using invoices, inspecting quality, reporting shortage, stocking, and rotating product. Adheres to product temperature and storage guidelines and follows proper packaging techniques. Processes administrative paperwork and maintains accurate department records
Accurately completes, maintains, and monitors daily log sheet, Production Chart, Sales and Labor and other required paperwork and logs
Controls shrink and cost
Ensures that proper temperature levels for product are maintained. Ensures proper signing of products. Complies with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations, Company, and code dating policies
Complies with all workplace safety rules and regulations
Ensures safety, cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor, work area, freezer, cooler, equipment, prep area and display area, including code date compliance as required
Responsible for performing all job duties and responsibilities safely, accurately and with honesty and integrity
Requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain professional demeanor regarding customers and co-workers
Requires a good understanding of overall company practices and Bakery Department policies and procedures
Ability to frequently reach, lift and maneuver objects of varying dimensions and weights up to approximately 60 lbs. Bends, stoops and reaches frequently. Pushes and pulls fully loaded hand trucks and pallet jacks. Performs repetitious arm movement to prepare, package and display products
Comply with company grooming standards and dress code
Manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination are necessary. Able to stand for long periods of time
Mental alertness is necessary to ensure safe and accurate completion of work activities. Requires knowledge of basic mathematics and weights and measures. Must have knowledge of product variety, standards, perishability, product handling, sanitation, labeling and department policies and procedures
Operates telephones, pallet jack, hand truck, knives, scissors, safety cutters, bread slicer, photo cake machine, mixer, microwave oven, ovens, and proof boxes. Utilizes cleaning supplies and equipment. Requires handling of latex products
Operates computer software and electronic ordering devices to order product
May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. Scheduled hours will vary. Good attendance is required
Exposure to potential hazards exists with respect to equipment and work aids necessary to perform job duties
Benefits
Diverse and Inclusive work culture
Competitive Wages paid weekly
Flexible work schedules
Associate discounts
Leaders invested in your training, career growth & development.
Health and welfare benefits for eligible employees (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
Vacation / Paid Time Off
Company
Safeway
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2014-01-30Acquired
1990-05-04IPO
Leadership Team
Randy N Anderson
Division CFO / VP Finance / Head of Finance - Safeway Northern California Division
Delicia Prater
CORPORATE HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR
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