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Job Application
Please download and fill out the attached application. Each position has an accompanying document explaining the position in more detail.
Drop off your application at the store in a sealed envelope or email it to Jeffrey at: [email protected]
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Great Harvest Bread Co. is a crew of fun-loving bakers, sandwich makers and more importantly "people-people".
We work hard and we love what we do.
Thanks for your interest in joining us!!
What do you want to do at Great Harvest Bread Company? We have two main types of jobs: PRODUCTION (they make our products) and CUSTOMER SERVICE (they sell them). Job experience in any one area, while helpful, is not required. More important to us at Great Harvest Burke & Lorton is an enthusiasm for bread and an excitement to help our customers.
What do you want to do at Great Harvest Bread Company? We have two main types of jobs: PRODUCTION (they make our products) and CUSTOMER SERVICE (they sell them). Job experience in any one area, while helpful, is not required. More important to us at Great Harvest Burke & Lorton is an enthusiasm for bread and an excitement to help our customers.
We will be hiring for Farmers Market crew in March so be sure to submit your application.
PRODUCTION POSITIONS
Production Manager
Provide supervision of production employees. Keep Manager/Owner up to date regarding issues of importance.
In the absence of Manager/Owner, substitute for the Bakery Manager/Owner for Burke & Lorton.
Bread Maker
Baking phenomenal bread is what our business is all about. Can you get up early (3:30 a.m.); do easy math calculations before dawn, follow directions, stay focused and work quickly and efficiently? Are you deadline and detail oriented? Bread making combines art and science, and you must be able to master both. Not for the faint-hearted, but oh-so-rewarding!Bread Maker
Sweets Baker
Our sweets production people love to bake, and take pride in their scones, muffins, cinnamon rolls and cookies. Can you hit the ground running at 2:30 a.m.? Work quickly and efficiently? Clean up after yourself, and plan ahead? Then consider putting a smile on our customers’ faces by baking our phenomenal sweets.
Bread Kneader
When dough hits the kneading table (approximately 7 a.m.), you go to work. You have to work quickly and efficiently. Kneading dough is an art, more than a science, and is critical to baking phenomenal bread. We’ll teach you what you “knead” to know, but you have to show you are willing to learn and settle for nothing less than near perfection.
Baker
It sounds simple: you wait until the bread rises, get it into the oven, and take it out when it’s done. Ah, but when you’re operating a 48-pan oven, juggling five or six types of breads, not so simple. Are you up for the challenge? This position usually starts at 7 a.m.
Sponge
and Dough
To provide Excellence in bread quality by consistently making sponges and doughs with precision and mastery. To develop an intuitive sense of bread-making and to devote strict attention to detail. To establish and maintain the production pace, by beginning and completing sponges and doughs with exactness, according to a strict time schedule.
CUSTOMER SERVICE POSITIONS
Farmers Market Sales
We take our bread and sweets on the road. During the farmers Market season (April through November) we participate in more than a dozen farmers markets across our area. We find that having passion for our products and enthusiasm for selling them, you'll do well.
Front Counter
Our customers can buy bread, goodies, and sandwiches just about anywhere. What entices them into Great Harvest Bread Company (besides phenomenal products)? You! The folks behind our front counter set our store apart from all others. Can you put a smile on your face even when you don’t feel like it? Can you keep your cool under pressure, accept criticism graciously, and create a WOW experience for every customer that walks into our store? Are you naturally friendly and helpful? And are you willing to jump in and help where needed? Product knowledge and the ability to educate, and sell to, our customers is important.
Customer Service Associate
Our customers can buy bread, goodies, and sandwiches just about anywhere. What entices them into Great Harvest Bread Company (besides phenomenal products)? You! The folks behind our front counter set our store apart from all others. Can you create a WOW experience for every customer? Are you naturally friendly and helpful? And are you willing to jump in and help where needed? Product knowledge and the ability to educate, and sell to, our customers is important. Our goal is to recruit the nicest, most generous, honest and authentic people we can find. If you have a good sense of humor, an outgoing personality, strong character, and don't mind staying in shape by moving fast to serve our customers, then you might be just the type of person we're looking for. Main duties will be providing great customer service, cleaning, bagging bread, restocking merchandise making sure the store is clean and well stocked.This position can be part-time and averages 15 to 25 hours a week. If you’re looking for full-time, we���re excited about discussing that as well.Must be able to work mornings, afternoons and early evening shifts as well as long hours during the holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. Great for retirees, moms and those who want a fun place in which to work. One of many benifits is that you get to take home a loaf of bread at the end of your shift!
Duties to include:
Running fast to help customers
Learn about our breads and make suggestions to customers
Giving away free slices of bread
Bagging/boxing breads, cookies scones, muffins and more
Make change accurately
Sweep, mop, dust in other words, clean
