Bakery Cake Decorator - Artistic Bakery Specialist

Company: Whole Foods Market
Location: Wayne
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

Bakery Cake Decorator Job SummaryWe are seeking a skilled Bakery Cake Decorator to join our team at Whole Foods Market. As a key member of our bakery team, you will be responsible for creating and decorating cakes, tarts, pastries, and special-order items to the highest standards of quality and presentation.Key Responsibilities:

• Cake Decoration: Assemble, fill, and finish/decorate cakes, tarts, select pastry, and special-order bakery items to meet business demand.
• Production and Quality Control: Complete production and spoilage records according to standard procedures, adjusting production sheets to maintain sufficient product. Monitor product quality for freshness and ensure proper product rotation within the display case, following standard procedures.
• Team Collaboration: Provide guidance and support for Bakery Decorator Apprentices and other Team Members. Create special order cake designs based on customer preferences.
• Customer Service: Provide excellent customer service, addressing customers' needs in a timely and effective manner, model suggestive selling techniques, answer phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Store Operations: Maintain, or ensure maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintain equipment in accordance with Whole Foods Market cleanliness and safety standards.
• Additional Responsibilities: Perform opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned, ensuring accuracy of signage and pricing. Perform other duties as assigned.Requirements:
  • Decorating Skills: Efficient cake and pastry decorating skills, including intermediate piping techniques and the ability to create decorative flowers and borders.
  • Color Theory: Understand color theory as it pertains to blending buttercream colors and coordinating complementing palettes.
  • Culinary Skills: Ability to apply proper technique when using all icings, including Swiss Buttercream, American Buttercream, Ganache, Cream Cheese Icing, Whipped Cream, Chantilly, German Chocolate Icing, Fudge Icing, and all varieties of Meringue.
  • Time Management: Ability to follow recipes, directions, and procedures; effective time management and organization skills.
  • Communication: Strong communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team. Ability to deliver information in a clear and respectable manner to fellow Team Members, customers, and vendors.Note: The purpose of this document is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Requirements build as one progresses through the job levels, so any job duties required at a lower level may be required at the higher level in addition to the duties listed for that higher level.

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