Pastry Chef

Join our dynamic culinary team as a Pastry Chef, where your creativity and passion for crafting exquisite pastries will delight our guests. You'll have the opportunity to showcase your skills in a vibrant kitchen, collaborating with talented professionals to create memorable dessert experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily operations of the bakery, ensuring all products meet quality standards and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain inventory levels, ordering supplies and ingredients as needed, and managing waste to optimize cost efficiency.
• Determine the daily production lists for banquets by reading the BEO’s.
• Prepare all bakery related food items for banquets, restaurant outlets, and catered events.
• Supervise and schedule bakery staff, assigning tasks and responsibilities to ensure smooth workflow and productivity.
• Keep the bakery kitchen clean, organized, and in a sanitary condition.
• Assist in keeping food cost under control by limiting overproduction and waste.
• Maintains bakery equipment in good working order and prepares maintenance work orders for broken equipment.
• Keeps records of all banquet and holiday special events for future use and production requirements.
• Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Executive Chef and/or Sous Chef.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education & Experience:

• Must be at least 18 years or older.
• Culinary graduate or related baking/pastry experience of at least 3-5 years.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including fluctuating hours, weekends, holidays, and nights as needed.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, hands to feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to walk; talk or hear; and taste or smell. Occasionally one will need to climb, kneel and/or crawl and balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
 

The position is indoors; and is exposed to hot, humid and/or cold conditions at times. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. This staff member will work in a high traffic/high volume business environment and will be required to spend most of the time on their feet standing/walking.

This document describes the general nature and level of work required of people in the job. It is not intended to be an all-encompassing list of responsibilities, duties, and skills.