Executive Pastry Chef: Banquets & Resort Lead

Trapp Family Lodge; Stowe (VT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Trapp Family Lodge seeks an Executive Pastry Chef to lead pastry and baking operations across the resort’s outlets.

You will provide strategic culinary leadership, ensuring quality, efficiency, and fiscal responsibility while aligning with the resort’s heritage and standards. Collaboration with culinary, banquets, and events teams is essential to deliver exceptional guest experiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7 years pastry or culinary experience with supervisory responsibilities.
• Formal culinary education preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of pastry menus for all dining outlets, banquets, and events.
• Ensure consistent quality, presentation, and portion standards across all pastry operations.
• Develop and maintain standardized recipes, production schedules, and quality control procedures.
• Incorporate seasonal ingredients and menus aligned with resort concepts and guest expectations.
• Coordinate with Banquets, Culinary, and Events teams to support weddings, conferences, holidays, and special programming.
• Ensure pastry production for banquets and catered events adheres to menus, timelines, and standards.
• Recruit, train, coach, and develop pastry team members.
• Manage pastry department food and labor costs to meet budgeted targets.

Skills

Supervise staff

Planning & prioritization

Labor management

Effective communication

Cross-department collaboration

Professionalism under pressure

Scheduling systems

Education

Culinary education

ServSafe Certification

Job description

Trapp Family Lodge seeks an Executive Pastry Chef to lead pastry and baking operations across the resort’s outlets.

You will provide strategic culinary leadership, ensuring quality, efficiency, and fiscal responsibility while aligning with the resort’s heritage and standards. Collaboration with culinary, banquets, and events teams is essential to deliver exceptional guest experiences.