Lead Central-Kitchen Pastry Chef – High-Volume Production

Easy And Fast To Upload Your CV; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Easy And Fast To Upload Your CV in Dubai seeks an experienced Pastry Production Lead to manage daily high-volume central kitchen pastry and bakery operations across outlets, ensuring quality, safety, and on-time delivery within UAE standards. You will plan production, scale recipes, supervise a pastry team, and drive R&D for new products while controlling costs and maintaining cold-chain integrity.

Responsibilities include planning production schedules, producing the full pastry range, enforcing

Qualifications

• 5 years in pastry with central kitchen/high-volume central production experience (essential)
• Strong background in batch production, recipe scaling, and standardized-recipe systems
• Dubai Municipality PIC/food safety certification (or ability to obtain) and HACCP knowledge
• Cost control, yields, and cold-chain/distribution logistics understanding

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute daily/weekly production schedules based on outlet orders and forecasts
• Produce full pastry range at volume including viennoiserie, laminated doughs, cakes, desserts, breads and frozen products
• Scale recipes accurately, maintain gram-weight specs and yields
• Supervise pastry production team, assign stations and monitor productivity
• Develop and standardize new products for central production and rollout to outlets
• Ensure food safety, temperature logs, allergen control, hygiene and sanitation
• Control food cost, portion cost and waste, manage stock and inventory

Skills

Pastry expertise

Central kitchen experience

Batch production

Cost control

HACCP knowledge

Education

Culinary/pastry qualification

Job description

Easy And Fast To Upload Your CV in Dubai seeks an experienced Pastry Production Lead to manage daily high-volume central kitchen pastry and bakery operations across outlets, ensuring quality, safety, and on-time delivery within UAE standards. You will plan production, scale recipes, supervise a pastry team, and drive R&D for new products while controlling costs and maintaining cold-chain integrity.

Responsibilities include planning production schedules, producing the full pastry range, enforcing