Job Description: Baker

Department: Deli
Reports To: Bakery Team Leader/Deli Team Leader
Part Time or Full Time, up to 40 hours a week
Salary Level: $16.00 – $18.00/hr.

Summary: Responsible to prepare baked foods to be sold to customers.

New Frontiers has a culture of caring. To further the support of our community, we offer comprehensive benefits to our employees, including the following:

  • Competitive Pay
  • Optional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • PTO and Paid Vacation
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Store Discount
  • Career Growth Opportunities
  • Highly Rated Team Member Satisfaction

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Include the following: Other duties may be assigned.

Customer Service:

  • Utilize knowledge of natural foods and customer service skills to respond to customer inquiries and needs
  • Merchandises and promotes store products and cooperates as a team member

Food Preparing:

  • Cooks prepare cakes, cookies, pastries, desserts, and other bakery products
  • Follow prescribed opening, closing and stocking procedures

Department Maintenance:

  • Maintain the Bakery work area in a clean and aesthetically pleasing fashion.
  • Participate in inventories and attend staff meetings as required

Responsibilities to Safety:

  • Protect the safety of self, team members, and New Frontiers patrons at all times.
  • Report any potentially harmful equipment or situations to the immediate supervisor without delay.
  • Report safety-related accidents and incidents at once to supervisor.
  • Follow all company and safety policies and procedures.
  • Operate equipment in a safe manner that will not lead to injury of self or others.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or GED certificate preferred. Prior commercial baking experience preferred and/or graduate of a baking culinary program. New Frontiers will train you if necessary. Excellent customer service skills.

Language Skills:

  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as recipes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
  • Ability to write special orders and correspondence.
  • Ability to speak effectively with customers or team members.

Mathematical Skills:

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:

  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or electronic form.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

  • Stand for majority of work shift
  • Walk
  • Use hands and fingers
  • Handle or feel
  • Reach with hands and arms
  • Stoop
  • Kneel
  • Crouch or crawl
  • Talk or hear
  • Taste or smell
  • Be regularly exposed to natural oils, chemicals, and odors/fragrances, including perfumes, colognes and scented lotions

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds safely.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to a moderate to high level of noise and high variations in temperature.

Responsibilities to Sustainability:

  • Contribute to sustainability efforts at New Frontiers that support a sustainable community through:
  • Minimizing waste by reducing and reusing materials and resources when possible.
  • Proper recycling and composting.
  • Water & energy conservation.

Responsibilities to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

  • Value and support a work environment that includes people of different identities from diverse backgrounds