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Harps Food Stores is a reputable supermarket chain dedicated to providing customers with high-quality products, excellent customer service, and a clean, friendly shopping environment. Known for their competitive prices and fresh product offerings, Harps aims to deliver the best overall value to their customers. Their mission is rooted in building a strong reputation through product quality and freshness, friendly service, and maintaining cleanliness throughout their stores. Operating in various locations, Harps places a strong emphasis on employee development and customer satisfaction, creating a positive working atmosphere for their associates. The Baker position at Harps Food Stores plays a critical role in ensuring the bakery department operates efficiently and maintains high-quality standards. The baker is responsible for delivering products that exceed customer expectations by creating a positive first impression and understanding the customer's needs. This role involves supervising the bakery store operations, maintaining cleanliness, adhering to food safety regulations, and ensuring proper use and maintenance of bakery equipment and tools. Additionally, the baker handles inventory management, including ordering, replenishment, receiving, invoicing, and returns, ensuring that the bakery department remains well-stocked and financially aligned with company goals. In this role, a baker must also follow rigorous food production and processing standards, ensuring that all bakery products are correctly packaged, weighed, priced, and labeled in compliance with company and regulatory requirements. Attention to cleanliness standards is paramount, as the baker will carry out cleaning duties using approved equipment and chemicals to maintain a safe and sanitary environment. The baker is expected to utilize problem-solving skills effectively by identifying and addressing issues with logic and clear communication. Harps Food Stores values qualities such as building strong relationships, conscientiousness, exceptional customer service, integrity, and professionalism in its bakery team members. Bakers are encouraged to foster a respectful and inclusive environment by considering customers' and coworkers' perspectives, ensuring fairness and empathy while maintaining a dependable and accountable work ethic. The baker position is also focused on customer satisfaction and teamwork, with the baker being an ambassador of Harps' mission to provide competitive prices, quality, freshness, and friendly service. By anticipating and responding to customer needs, the baker contributes to continuous improvement in service and product offerings. This position requires flexibility in work schedule, including the ability to work mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays. It is suitable for individuals who are adaptable, physically able to perform labor-intensive tasks, and who want to join a company committed to excellence and positive customer experiences. Harps provides a supportive work environment where bakers develop their skills while contributing to the company’s mission of exceeding customer expectations in every interaction.

• 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
• continuous repetitive motion with hands and arms such as grasping gripping and turning
• stands and or walks continuously throughout shift
• visually locates merchandise and 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 evaluation of a pep survey drug screen employment reference check and criminal background check