Production Pastry Chef

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

Job Purpose

Lead the daily high-volume pastry and bakery production of a central kitchen supplying multiple outlets (restaurants cafés hotels retail catering). Deliver consistent quality at scale on schedule within cost and full compliance with UAE / Dubai Municipality food safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

Production & planning

• Plan and execute daily/weekly production schedules based on outlet orders and forecasts.
• Produce the full pastry range at volume: viennoiserie laminated dough entremets cakes desserts breads plated components frozen/chilled semi-finished products.
• Scale recipes accurately for batch production; maintain standardized recipes gram-weight specs and yields.
• Operate and manage central-kitchen equipment: deck/rack/convection ovens sheeters/laminators planetary mixers blast chillers/freezers tempering machines depositors.

Quality & consistency

• Guarantee identical product quality across every batch and every outlet.
• Enforce portioning weight finishing and packaging standards.
• Manage shelf life blast-chilling freezing labelling and cold-chain integrity for distribution.

Food safety & compliance

• Apply and maintain HACCP-based food safety management; act as/support the Person In Charge (PIC) per Dubai Municipality Foodwatch requirements.
• Ensure temperature logs traceability allergen control FIFO hygiene and sanitation standards are fully respected.

Cost & inventory

• Control food cost portion cost and waste; monitor yields and variance.
• Manage stock ordering supplier goods receiving and inventory rotation.

Team

• Supervise train and schedule the pastry production team (chefs de partie commis helpers).
• Assign stations monitor productivity and maintain discipline and morale.

R&D

• Develop and standardize new products for central production and roll‑out to outlets.

Requirements

• 5 years in pastry with proven central kitchen / high-volume central production experience (essential).
• Strong background in batch production recipe scaling and standardized-recipe systems.
• Culinary/pastry qualification.
• Valid Dubai Municipality PIC / food safety certification (or ability to obtain); HACCP knowledge essential.
• Solid understanding of cost control yields and cold-chain / distribution logistics.
• Able to work in a fast‑paced high‑output temperature‑controlled environment; physically fit; flexible on early/shift hours.
• UAE experience preferred.