Bakers - Bread/Pastry Deck Oven

La Farm, Inc.; Cary (AR); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental insurance

Employee discounts

Free uniforms

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Wellness resources

Job summary

La Farm Bakery in Cary, NC is seeking a full-time baker to join our team. You will assist in bread production, ensuring recipes are followed, ingredients are fresh, and product quality meets standards.

The role requires 2–3 years of bakery or culinary experience preferred; we are willing to teach. You will work weekends and holidays, maintain safety and sanitation, and contribute to a team focused on exceptional service and community.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years professional culinary bread baking, willing to be taught.
• Production skills with accuracy and attention to quality.
• Exceptional customer service and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Embody La Farm values through action and communication.
• Ensure bread production adheres to recipe specs and quality standards.
• Provide world-class customer service with urgency to serve every customer.
• Assist Head Bakers and follow bread making processes.
• Maintain safety, sanitation, and inventory controls.

Skills

Artisan bread

Customer service

Teamwork

Quality control

Job description

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discounts
• Free uniforms
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Wellness resources

Full-Time positions available (over nite)
After 6 weeks training eligible for increase

Essential Duties:

• Team: Embody La Farm values through action, example, and communication: Exceed Customer Expectations, Quality, Dignity, Community, Learning, Teaching, and Innovation.
• Product: Ensure bread production adheres to recipe specs, ingredient/product freshness and quality standards. Ensure quality, consistency, and accurate product production.
• Customer Service: Ensure and exude world-class customer service and demonstrate urgency to serve every customer.

Other Essential Duties:

• Assist Head Bakers in bakery production to meet La Farm systems, policies, and procedures.
• Follow La Farm’s system of bread making scaling, mixing, dividing, proofing, shaping and baking. Adhere to bread recipes.
• Mix and bake ingredients according to recipes to produce all types of breads and baked goods.
• Combine measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending, or baking machinery.
• Roll and shape dough/pastry.
• Complete checklists and clean lists.
• Perform the next day set-up.
• Ensure proper rotation and inventory – dry goods, cooler and freezer.
• Operate equipment; set time, temperature, and speed control.
• Place items into hot ovens for baking.
• Control inventory levels and ensure proper ordering of supplies and production items.
• Ensure overall unit safety and sanitation goals and policies.
• Check products for quality and identify damaged or expired goods.
• Maintain grade “A” or better by beating health and sanitation inspection standards.
• Uphold company standards and policies for opening/closing.
• Ensure safe working conditions and comply with all laws.

Other Duties As Assigned:

The statements contained herein reflect general details of the job’s principal functions, knowledge and skills requirements, and scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of job requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned or needed.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 2-3 years previous professional culinary experience baking artisan breads preferred; however, we are willing to teach.
• Production skills, technique, consistency, and accuracy.
• Demonstrated creative thinking.
• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Familiar with utilizing machine mixer, divider, moulder, 5 tier oven.
• Comprehends dough and bread fermentation process; can make necessary adjustments and calls.
• Accurate at scaling dough; efficient mixing and shaping large volumes; proper oven management for consistent product.
• Analytical ability and math proficiency to monitor proper production scheduling of daily operations.
• Ability to solve business related problems quickly and efficiently.
• Great relationship building skills and demonstrated positive demeanor as a team player.
• Ability to work in fast paced environment, multitask and accurately meet deadlines.
• Flexibility required: Weekends required, holiday work required, two days off (not consecutive).
• Desire to experiment to create new products.
• Desire to learn the trade.

Essential Physical Demands:

• Ability to bend and lift 50 lbs.
• Ability to stand on your feet for extended periods of time.

Summary of Benefits:

• Medical Insurance (PPO & HDHP w/HSA)
• Dental/Vision Coverage
• Long Term/Short Term Disability
• Employee Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• Paid Time Off
• EAP
• Other Great Perks (Free Bread, store/meal discounts)

Compensation: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour

"After years spent traveling the globe with yeast and flour in hand, consulting for many of the best bakeries in the world, Lionel Vatinet, along with his wife and partner Missy, realized his lifelong dream and opened La Farm Bakery in Cary, North Carolina in 1999."

La Farm Bakery is a modern bakery where families come together around the table to share their lives as they share a good meal. The founding philosophy of La Farm is born out of the experience and tutelage of Vatinet’s training in France’s prestigious artisans’ guild, Les Compagnons du Devoir. Our goal is to continue the centuries-old baking traditions and techniques, honoring the ordinary, yet extraordinary, boulangeries that once flourished in every little town in France.