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Want a job you’ll LOVE?

Our Create-A-Cake team provides an artistic flare in personalizing sweet treats for our customers. In this area, you’ll work with a team to decorate cakes and other bakery treats while adding those impressive finishing touches to customer orders. If you are looking for a hands-on opportunity to exercise your creativity, this could be the role for you!




How do I make a difference?




Providing Incredible, Knowledge Based Customer Service
  • Proactively approach customers, answer any questions they have about products or services offered, and take orders in person and over the phone
  • Effectively balance and complete tasks while ensuring customer orders are filled by the promised time


Ensuring High Quality Products & Ingredients
  • Thaw, bake, fill, frost, decorate and package a variety of cakes and baked goods
  • Follow Wegmans core recipes and techniques when personalizing cakes and making a variety of frostings, creams, and fillings to produce a consistent outcome that meets Wegmans high standards of quality
  • Ensure the freshest products are available throughout the day by maintaining product levels in well-merchandised cases, rotating for freshness and pulling outdated products
  • Properly handle products, use equipment, keep accurate logs and follow sanitation practices in accordance with food and human safety guidelines and Simplification 5S procedures


Living Who We Are
  • Support, encourage, and respect co-workers
  • Work with supervisor to set and achieve goals for professional development
  • Comply with Wegmans Policies and Work Rules, as well as, federal and state laws
  • Maintain open lines of communication with supervisors and coworkers to ensure the most efficient operations in the department


Seeking Candidates Who…
  • Live our values: caring, respect, empowerment, making a difference, high standards
  • Possess teamwork & diversity awareness
  • Seek continuous learning opportunities
  • Provide incredible customer service
  • Ensure food & human safety
  • Possess organizational skills
  • Provide knowledge based service
  • Educate self and others about product knowledge
  • Use and explain Wegmans cooking techniques


Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Customer service experience, preferably in a food service, grocery or retail setting
  • Cake decorating experience


Work Environment
  • Work involves continuous interaction with customers and co-workers in a fast-paced environment
  • Typical motions include repetitive and sustained hand and arm movements, grasping, bending and reaching
  • Responsible for moving and lifting an average of 1 – 10 pounds with a maximum weight lifted of 35 pounds occasionally
  • May be exposed to various allergens and work environments including cold, freezing and hot temperatures
  • Work includes the safe and proper handling of cake-decorating equipments and mixers
  • Will be required to spend the majority of time on his or her feet and stand or walk without a break for up to 4 hours


* Employment at Wegmans may be contingent upon your completion and our evaluation of a drug screen physical
and/or criminal background check. All Applicants will be screened; only those closely matching the job posting will be interviewed

Age Requirement: Must be 18 years or older.

Days/Hours Requirement: Sunday through Saturday for a minimum of 4 shifts weekly between the hours of 6am and 10pm for various shifts. Must have some weekend availability.