About the Role
The Bakery Porter is responsible for maintaining a clean, organized, and sanitary environment to support smooth bakery operations. This role involves assisting team members, ensuring equipment and work areas are ready for daily production, and providing excellent customer service.
Responsibilities
- Ensure customers receive friendly, polite, and knowledgeable service; greet them personally and thank them for shopping at Adams.
- Answer the phone with a friendly greeting and assist with basic customer inquiries.
- Set up baked goods in the morning; stretch, round, and seed breads for bake-off.
- Receive and check deliveries against order tickets for accuracy.
- Perform daily and weekly cleaning duties, including dishwashing, sanitizing equipment and prep areas, and cleaning mixers, ovens, and grease traps.
- Bag and dispose of trash and recycling properly; keep all floors clean, dry, and mopped.
- Keep all areas of the department clean and organized, including the sales floor, counters, coolers, prep, and storage areas.
- Assist the bakery team as needed and always prioritize helping customers over any task.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Safely operate and use commercial dishwasher; if applicable.
- Consistently move, adjust, and position items weighing up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to remain in a stationary position for duration of shift.
- Occasionally ascend/descend a stepstool, stepladder, and/or ladder.
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers for duration of shift.
- Communicate with others to exchange information.
- Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks including in tight and confined spaces.
- Exposure to cold temperatures periodically during your shift.
Skills
- Knowledge on Bakery items and offers
- Excellent customer service
- Willingness to work collaboratively
- Communicate with a team of co-workers and managers
- Exhibit enthusiasm, positivity and/or knowledge about Adams’ products and quality
- Ability to demonstrate and set the example for Adams’ culture and values
Work Type
- Full-time
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental and vision coverage (for applicable roles)
- Voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance
- Paid time off and holiday pay
- Flexible pay schedules with DailyPay
- Generous Employee Discount
About the Company
- At Adams, we prioritize creating a warm and welcoming environment for both our customers and team members.
- We believe exceptional customer service goes beyond meeting needs—it’s about treating everyone with genuine respect, kindness, and appreciation.
- Each team member is expected to greet customers personally, serve them with friendly, polite, and knowledgeable assistance, and always put customer needs above other tasks.
- We value a workplace where employees treat each other with the same courtesy and respect as our customers, fostering a collaborative and supportive atmosphere that reflects our commitment to service excellence.
