Overview

Our Pastry Chef is a skilled culinary professional who specializes in creating a wide variety of delicious desserts, pastries, breads, and sweet goods. They have expertise in baking techniques, recipe development, and pastry decoration.

This role will pay a salary of $65,000 to $80,000.

For FT roles: Benefits: Health, Dental and Vision insurance, 401(k) savings plan, 401(k) matching, and paid time off (vacation days, sick days, and 11 holidays).

Responsibilities

-Preparing a wide variety of goods: This includes cakes, cookies, pies, bread, and other delectable treats, following both traditional and modern recipes.

-Creating new and exciting desserts: Our Pastry Chef will contribute to menu innovation by developing fresh and enticing dessert options that engage customers.

-Decorating pastries: Using different icings, toppings, and artistic techniques to ensure visually appealing presentations.

-Managing ingredient stocks: Ensuring a reliable supply of high-quality ingredients.

-Maintaining equipment: Regularly inspecting and maintaining kitchen tools and appliances.

-Guiding and training staff: Sharing expertise with other team members.

-Ensuring compliance with sanitation and safety standards: Upholding health and safety protocols in the kitchen.

-Stocking checking and ordering ingredients
-Weighing and measuring ingredients
-Decorating pastries and other desserts using a variety of different sauces, toppings and other items
-Contributing ideas to the menu
-Keeping accurate records
-Recruiting, hiring and training Assistants or Junior Chefs
-Operating a variety of kitchen equipment
-Maintaining a clean and hygienic work environment

Qualifications

-3-5 years of proven skill in baking, pastry preparation and decoration
-Extensive knowledge of health and safety procedures for kitchens and food preparation areas
-Excellent attention to detail
-Exceptional time management skills
-Ability to work autonomously, but also with a team
-A food hygiene certificate or any food handling or preparation qualification
-Ability to calculate costs and manage a budget

-Experience of working in a kitchen environment and baking commercially.

-Experience of working in kitchens where they will have had the opportunity to use a wide range of commercial cooking equipment. ---  ---Applicants who have completed apprenticeships will have gained experience in a kitchen environment.

-Prefer candidates to have attended culinary school and have completed courses such as Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) Diploma in Patisserie or a City and Guilds NVQ Diploma in Food Production and Cooking – Pastry.

-Prefer candidates to have completed internships under experienced professionals and to have received on-the-job training in the techniques and methods used to create a selection of dishes and desserts.