Lead Pastry Sous Chef with Catering Experience

Pastry Sous Chef -with experience in cakes, decorating cakes, and laminating a plus. We are a Catering company and prefer catering experience!

The Pastry team is responsible for the quality and craftsmanship of all sweet and savory baked goods and pastry products served in our company’s partnerships. The Pastry team should be inspired to create menus featuring locally sourced ingredients and should always work to evolve our offerings, based on the seasons. This individual should strive to create unique, indigenous, and unexpected pastry and bread offerings for our guests through an ever-evolving menu. The ideal candidate should strive to stay current with industry trends, and work to incorporate those trends into our menus.

The Pastry team will always be focused on the quality of our food, without equivocations. They will not bend on expectations, nor flex on our standards of quality. The Pastry team will take time to teach, guide and train all bakers and bakers assistants in their positions. They will also be responsible for ensuring the production and execution of the pastry and bread products being offered at all locations is of the highest quality and consistency.
Our successful candidate will possess the ability to lead and inspire a team of baking and pastry professionals by exuding a level of professionalism, poise, and integrity always. The Pastry team will set the tone for the rest of the operation by their engagement, excitement, and energy into the items we prepare. They will attend daily meetings with the operations team to discuss specials, new ingredients, or new dishes that are being featured on the upcoming bakery and pastry menus. They will also work closely with the Executive Chef to develop offerings that will complement our ever-evolving savory food menus; thus, communication and seasonal menu planning is imperative to their success.

Lastly, this position will also play a large role in the planning, development, and execution in the long-term vision of the overall operation. This position collaborates with the Executive Pastry Chef and team that will be responsible for generating profitable business strategies through the development of marketing plans, guest relations initiatives and community events.
We are a progressive hospitality company that is always seeking opportunity to develop something new, exciting, and unique to the market. We are not followers; we are leaders in our industry and the Pastry Chef position is pivotal to the success of food program.
Core Work Activities:

• Support oversight of all daily kitchen operations, from conceptual menu development to execution.
• Oversee production, and execution of all Pasty and Bakery offerings.
• Support operational staffing in all areas of responsibility. This includes all interviewing, hiring, on-boarding, conflict management, staff development, etc.
• Supports all staffing schedules and production lists for areas of responsibility.
• Supports all vendor relationship from local farming partners and master suppliers
• Maintain proper inventory levels based on business, food rotation and waste management.
• Training of all hourly culinary and utility ambassadors.
• Creation of all menu items in collaboration with the Executive Chef.
• Manage food cost, labor cost and controllable cost as dictated by the operations budget
• Personally, responsible for the operations adherence of all federal, state and local health guidelines.

Leadership Traits / Qualifications:

• Utilizes interpersonal communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation amongst the team.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same with their teammates.
• Leads shifts while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks, bakers, or workers engaged in work activities.
• Maintains an obsessively clean, organized, and efficient kitchen operation always.
• Professional representation of , including customer interactions, media relations, kitchen tours, industry events, and community involvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates degree in Culinary Arts from an accredited institution required (Bachelor’s Degree Preferred).
• 1+ Years as a kitchen leader in a highly rated, quality focused restaurant kitchen preferred
• 2+ Years of professional cooking experience at high volume operation is required.
• Highly proficient in all areas of baking and pastry arts, to include artisan bread and dough management, sweet and savory quick breads, laminated dough, bagel production, chocolate, and sugar work, etc.
• A highly motivated, self-starting, and independent approach to work style. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to take their practical cooking foundation and elevate that experience to take on the increased responsibility of the job requirements listed in the above section. Passion, creativity, teamwork, communication skills, professionalism, mechanical aptitude, and the ability to meet the physical demands of the kitchen environment are all assumed for this role.
• Highly proficient at the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook
• Possess excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills and possess the ability to interact with guests daily.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person