Bakery Assistant

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Bakery Clerk to join our team at Brookshire Grocery Company. As a key member of our bakery team, you will be responsible for packaging, labeling, and pricing bakery products, maintaining stock levels, and ensuring product quality by monitoring dates, appearance, and storage temperature controls.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Adhere to quality control and food safety standards by stocking and rotating baked goods.
• Assist bakery personnel with preparing, packaging, labeling, and maintaining product displays.
• Promote product sales through the use of suggestive selling initiatives.
• Stack pallets and sort product into correct locations according to Company efficiency standards and expectations under supervision.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.
• Provide a friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions, and taking orders by phone and in person.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.
• Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment, such as a bread slicer, commercial oven, etc. (Partners must be 18+ years).
• Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.
• Ability to use precision and non-precision hand tools under supervision.
• Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with customers and partners in written and verbal form.
• Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Minimum of 16 years of age required.
• Must be 18 years of age to operate motorized equipment.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• Food Handler certification required.
• Typically involves on-the-job training.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception, or the ability to focus.
• Continuously required to stand or walk.
• Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching, or handling.
• Continuously required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to use strenuous finger or hand movements.
• Frequently required to bend, kneel, squat, or stoop.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver, or lift objects up to 75 lbs.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a retail store.
• Frequently exposed to hot surfaces.
• Frequently exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Frequently exposed to extreme heat conditions (non-weather).
• Frequently exposed to wet, slippery, or damp conditions.
• Frequently exposed to equipment with sharp blades or edges under supervision.
• Frequently exposed to cleaning agents.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.

Brookshire Grocery Company strives to provide a safe, drug-free, and alcohol-free environment for its partners and guests. The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, or military status and any other trait protected by law.