Love Pastry? Ready to step your career up a notch?

We are a busy, buzzy café known locally and further afield for great food that is full of flavour. An independent business with a team that has stayed together for many years. If you are a passionate and outgoing pastry chef with experience, then we want to hear from you!

If you have:

- Prior experience in a high quality / volume production environment

- Total understanding of proper pastry methods, techniques and standards

- A current understanding of culinary concepts, practices, and procedures and active in furthering of his/her own culinary development

- A strong work ethic and commitment to uncompromising quality

- A passion for high quality ingredients and dynamic cooking techniques

- Able to mathematically adjust recipes; able to read, create, interpret and follow written recipes with precision

-Prepare dough for pies, bread and rolls and sweet goods, and prepare batters for muffins, cookies, cakes, icings and frostings according to standards

-Operate machinery

-Bake mixed dough's and batters

-Frost and decorate cakes or other baked goods

- To ensure knowledge of the product is maintained and communicated to all relevant personnel

- To be responsible for completing your mis en place

- Ensure quality of products meets established standards

- Strive to be innovative, creative and dynamic, with a positive attitude toward work

- Ensure a high standard of productivity, quality, presentation and consistency

- Effective control on food cost, portion control, productivity and wastage

- Observe a high standard of cleanliness at all the time in the kitchen, respect established regulation on health & safety procedures, and committed to work in a safe workplace environment

- To assist on other sections or help with other duties when we are short of staff, emergencies and when number of covers require

- To monitor stock rotation

Job qualifications:

- Must have at least 3 years proven experience

- Must be flexible with scheduling including weekends, evenings and holidays

- Ability to communicate effectively with associates/management, clients and vendors when necessary

- Maintain high standards for work areas and appearance.

- Maintain a positive attitude.

- Must be reliable

- Ability to work as part of a team

- Hunger to take initiative and own all successes as well as challenges