Job Description
We're searching for a Production Pastry Chef with a minimum of three years of pastry production experience for a highly successful dessert company, a company that employs great people.
Qualifications:
- Lead by example to ensure safe work practices are followed
- Provide consistent follow-up ensuring proper procedures are followed and documented.
- Must monitor and enforce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's)
- Follow schedule and ensure work assignments are completed to quality and safety specifications
- Train employees, offer praise and accountability, address complaints and resolve problems, and evaluate performance
- Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, safety standards and quality of products
- Work collaboratively with peer department leaders: Quality, Packaging, Maintenance, and Warehouse
- Ensure proper up-keep of equipment; address and resolve problems, initiate work orders for repairs
Experience:
- 3+ years of successful, hands on, leadership experience within a large pastry production environment
- Bi-lingual (spanish) a plus
- Demonstrated ability to supervise and mentor both hourly production and salaried associates
- Good working knowledge of pastry production equipment such as mixers, ovens, and packaging equipment
- Working knowledge of process controls and industry standards
- Well versed in food safety, allergen, and other compliance requirements of a bakery production facility.
- Positive and professional communication and customer service skills. Ensure capabilities to meet market needs and support profitable growth of the products produced by the facility.
- Competent with computers – accustomed to working in an MS Office environment and competent in Excel
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