Bakery Clerk (16-17) at Fiesta Mart in Austin, Texas

Job Description:

JOB BRIEF
The Bakery Clerk provides support to the Bakery department and staff. Primary focus is to prepare and display product in the department in a clean, neat and expedient manner, ensuring all product is fresh, rotated, and well stocked for our customers while maintaining great customer service.


JOB DUTIES
- Orally communicates with customers and co-workers on products and prices.
- Weighs certain items.
- Prices customer selections using label machine and calculators.
- Understands procedures for taking deposits on purchases.
- Figures mathematical calculations assessing prices paid and change due.
- Checkouts customer purchases using register.
- Completes necessary paperwork to countdown cash register (end shift).
- Provides samples for customers.
- Demonstrates salesmanship on a routine basis.
- Answers telephone to communicate with internal and external customers.
- Retrieves product from cooler to fill displays.
- Stocks and replenishes counters with product.
- Rotates merchandise for freshness.
- Checks merchandise for outdated product; sorts newly received merchandise.
- Cleans and maintains work station.


Secondary Job Duties:
- Restock and use supply items efficiently to eliminate waste and to maintain the lowest supply cost.
- Sweep floors, clean utensils and work tables, wipe counter tops, and front of display cases.
- Keep display cases, cooler and freezer organized and clean; clean walls, fans, drains, and equipment.
- Present favorable impression in dress, personal hygiene and business attitude.
- Notify management of associate theft, customer shoplifting, unauthorized mark downs or property defacement.
- Other duties assigned by management.


QUALIFICATIONS
- High School diploma or equivalent experience.
- 18 years of age or older.
- Can handle speed and pressure in response to the demands of the job and within quality control guidelines.


COMPETENCIES
Never- 0%, Occasionally- 1-33%, Frequently- 34-66%, Continuously- 67-100%


Physical Demands:
- Occasionally- Sitting, pushing and pulling up to 50 lbs., climbing up to 6 foot height, kneeling, and crouching.
- Frequently- Carrying up to 10 lbs., lifting up to 10 lbs., bending, balancing, stooping, and reaching waist/overhead level.
- Continuously- Standing on tile/concrete, walking on tile/concrete, manual dexterity, talking, seeing, hearing and smelling.


Safety Risk Factors:
- Occasionally-Loud noise, cluttered floor surface, contact with skin irritant, toxic exposure (see Material Safety Data Sheets), nuisance dust, fumes, sprays, and hazardous cleaning solutions.
- Frequently-Twisting of back and neck, slippery floor surface and contact with sharp objects.
- Continuously-hazardous equipment (mechanical moving parts)


Other:
- Varied, irregular schedules.
- Working environment involves inside store location with controlled temperatures.