Overnight Pastry Cook

About the role

Our Pastry Cooks function as part of the commissary production team with a focus on pastries, preparing, assembling, and packaging food items while adhering to food safety, food handling, and sanitation procedures. They also handle daily cleaning tasks and upkeep of the commissary space.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate skill in baking pastries, desserts, cakes, cookies, sweets, and pies.
• Apply classic pastry baking techniques when preparing traditional pastries, including laminated pastries.
• Monitor equipment and ensure all specialized pastry baking tools are in working order.
• Bake pastry items according to pre-established recipes and package products according to commissary guidelines.
• Decorate pastries in a consistent style.
• Maintain inventory of prepped ingredients.
• Properly label and store ingredients.
• Help maintain a clean and safe work environment to comply with sanitation, ServSafe, and safety requirements.
• Adhere to operational details, including all operating standards, food standards, service standards, and policies and procedures as outlined in the company handbook.
• Perform dishwashing duties to ensure clean and sanitized kitchen tools are available for use.
• Perform other duties and tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• Pastry-making experience, including laminated pastry production (viennoiserie) required.
• Certification of culinary training or apprenticeship preferred.
• Demonstrates adequate pastry skills and operations.