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Harps is a well-established retail grocery chain committed to delivering exceptional value to its customers through competitive prices, high-quality products, fresh offerings, friendly service, and a clean shopping environment. With a solid reputation built on these core values, Harps focuses on customer satisfaction and operational excellence across its various departments, including the bakery. As part of a dynamic and customer-focused company, this Baker role is essential in upholding the company’s mission by ensuring fresh, high-quality bakery products are consistently available and presented in an appealing manner. This role requires dedication to food safety, department cleanliness, and superior customer service, contributing to an overall excellent shopping experience for Harps’ customers. The Baker position at Harps involves comprehensive support of bakery operations, including readiness, staffing, pricing, inventory control, and financial objectives for the department. The role includes replenishment tasks such as ordering, receiving, invoicing, and managing returns. It also entails strict adherence to equipment maintenance and cleanliness standards to promote safety and hygiene. Bakers are responsible for following food safety and production guidelines, ensuring that all bakery items are properly processed, packaged, weighed, priced, and labeled according to company and regulatory standards. This attention to detail guarantees product quality and compliance with health regulations. Beyond the technical duties, the Baker role emphasizes relationship building within the team and with customers. Strong interpersonal skills are essential to foster a respectful, courteous, and supportive work environment. Bakers demonstrate conscientiousness by being dependable, thorough in their work, maintaining a safe workplace, and upholding company policies and procedures. Customer service is a key priority, with Bakers expected to exceed expectations by addressing customer needs proactively and following the company’s SMILE program guidelines to enhance hospitality. Integrity and professionalism underpin all aspects of this position, with Bakers holding themselves accountable for their performance and actions, always acting in the best interest of Harps even when faced with challenging situations. This role requires flexibility in scheduling as Bakers must be willing to work evenings, early mornings, weekends, and holidays to meet operational demands. Physical demands are also significant, involving lifting, reaching, squatting, climbing, and standing for extended periods. The Baker must be adaptable to a fast-paced, shifting environment and capable of maintaining quality and safety standards under pressure. Additionally, exposure to various environmental conditions and cleaning chemicals requires awareness and adherence to safety protocols. Overall, the Baker at Harps plays a vital role in supporting the company’s mission by ensuring customers receive the best possible bakery experience every time they shop.

• must be at least 18 years of age
• high school diploma or G E D equivalent preferred
• ability to work a flexible schedule including evenings early mornings weekends and holidays as needed
• adaptable to different situations and the ability to respond with flexibility to shifting priorities and rapid change
• ability to interpret understand and follow instructions
• moves lifts carries and places merchandise and supplies weighing less than or equal to 50 pounds without assistance
• frequently reaches overhead and below the knees including pushing pulling squatting kneeling bending stooping crouching and twisting with or without bearing weight
• occasionally required to climb
• continuous repetitive motion with hand s and arm s such as grasping gripping and turning
• stands and or walks continuously throughout shift
• visually locates merchandise and other objects as well as verifies information often in small print
• may be exposed to all weather conditions hot cold rain snow ice and wind as well as inside work with variations in heat cold dust and humidity
• may be exposed to cleaning solvents or other chemicals
• may be exposed to latex eggs nuts soy and wheat
• employment at harps may be contingent upon completion and our evaluation of a pep survey drug screen employment reference check and criminal background check