Bakery Production Specialist - Cheesecake & Pie Prep

Maddalena's CheeseCake & Catering Inc.; Larisons Corners (NJ); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Maddalena's CheeseCake & Catering Inc. is seeking a full-time Bakery Worker in Larisons Corners, NJ. The role involves producing a variety of sweet and savory items, particularly large batches of cheesecakes. Candidates should have at least 1 year of food preparation experience, a driver's license, and be willing to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Weekend availability is required as demand increases during fall and holiday seasons. The team is rewarded with a Thanksgiving dinner for their hard work.

Qualifications

• 1 year of experience in Food Preparation Occupations required.
• Driver's license required.
• Weekend availability.

Responsibilities

• Dust cheesecake pans with graham cracker crumbs.
• Implement precautions to prevent cross-contamination.
• Fill cheesecake pans with batter.
• Unmold cakes and fill out production reports.
• Package a variety of desserts and savory items.

Skills

Food Preparation

Multitasking

Sanitization

ServSafe Certification

Job description

For close to 40 years, we have been making our award-winning desserts at our home of deliciousness in Ringoes, New Jersey. This sweet journey began when Gene Maddalena, the patriarch of our family-owned business, created the original cheesecake recipe that we still use to this day. We make each cheesecake with the finest ingredients, which includes 100% Real Dairy and pure Bourbon vanilla extract from Madagascar.

Presently, we make over 12 different cheesecake flavors, which include gluten-free and keto options. In recent years, we have created other desserts like our apple crumb pie, chookie, and cheesecake-on-a-stick. You will find our delicious desserts at our storefront market, as well as at festivals, fairs, and private events. We also make a wonderful selection of savory frozen prepared foods like our chicken pot pie. Please visit ouronline storeto view the many sweet and savory foods that we have in-stock.

Job Description

We are looking for a full-time Bakery Worker who has experience and passion in the culinary arts. The job will include production preparation for a variety of sweet and savory items. 1 day per week is devoted to baking large batches of CheeseCake, other items we create include a variety of savory items like; chicken pot pies, soups, chili, and quiche all sold exclusively in our storefront market.

The perfect candidate for this job, should enjoy the fast pace and adapt to our schedule as we switch from preparing and packaging desserts to savory dishes. This person needs to pay attention to detail and be aware of what is happening around them. Be interested in more than simply completing one task at a time but hungry to understand what we are doing and why. This person will learn how to use our equipment, break it down, clean, sanitize and reassemble it. Preference given to individuals who have Serve-Safe certification. Individuals will need to be able to multitask.

Examples of required duties will include:

*Dusting the cheesecake pans with graham cracker crumbs.

*Implementing precautions to prevent cross contamination.

*Filling cheesecake pans with batter

*Unmolding cakes and filling out production reports.

*Packaging a variety of desserts and savory items

*Help with the dishes and floors at the end of a day.

*Help with inventory reports

A typical week includes, baking approximately 1000 cheesecakes, packaging and labeling sweet or savory creations, weighing ingredients and preparing large batches of pie dough for apple pie or savory pot pies, filling pies and hand crimping pie crusts. As we get into the fall and leading up to the holidays, we get busier and demand for our desserts and savory items will increase.

Thanksgiving is an especially busy time for us, in addition to producing our sweet and savory products we will be building inventory to meet the increased demands for our CheeseCake and savory meals.

We also prepare a complete take home Thanksgiving dinner which includes a hot turkey. We do work on Thanksgiving Day until 2 PM. Each employee gets one of these dinners to take home and share with their family.

We are celebrating our 40th anniversary in April. If you would like to join our team, we would like to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability
• Food Preparation Occupations: 1 year (Required)
• Drivers license (Required)

Additional Information

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