Pastry Baker

flagshipinc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No Weekends

Mon-Fri 6:00am - 2:30pm

Snacks and meals provided during shift

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

13 paid holidays

401K with match

Vacation and Sick days

Job summary

Flagship, a bakery-focused company in the United States, is seeking a pastry/bakery representative to produce a wide range of desserts and breads. The role emphasizes following recipes, maintaining quality, and expanding skills within a collaborative staff.

You will contribute to creative dessert offerings, manage production schedules, and ensure food safety and presentation standards are met. The position offers weekday shifts with meal provisions and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years minimum experience in bakery/kitchen
• Experience writing menus for desserts and breads
• Knowledge of world cuisines and pastries
• Ability to work in a fast-paced kitchen with high urgency

Responsibilities

• Prepares, bakes, cooks, and serves various pastries, cookies, and breads.
• Writes menus for an array of world cuisine.
• Assists with quality control and presentation of baked goods.
• Performs daily baking tasks according to recipes and schedules.
• Maintains clean and organized work areas and equipment.
• Supports special diet production if required.

Skills

Baking experience

Food safety

Multi-tasking

Verbal communication

Education

High School diploma or GED

Culinary degree

ServSafe certification

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

The pay rate or range for this position is: $36.00 per hour

Job Summary

As a representative for our company, you will responsible for dessert and pastry production (measure and mix ingredients) and baking according to recipes/guidelines. Experience with ethnic and diverse dessert variations and with some bread work experience as well. We provide creative flexibility and you would have the chance to work with a talented staff and the ability to expand your skills and resume.

Job Description

Benefits/Perks

• No Weekends
• Monday to Friday: 6:00am - 2:30pm
• Snacks and meals provided during shifts
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 13 paid holidays
• 401K with match
• Vacation and Sick days

Essential Functions

• Prepares, bakes, cooks, and serves various pastries, cookies, and breads.
• Makes all types of desserts; sweet & savory breads(yeast/quick), cakes/cupcakes, pies, torts, flans, custards, granolas, cookies, pate a choux, cheesecakes, bars and some vegan desserts.
• Writes menus for an array of world cuisine.
• Responsible for food quality and presentation.
• Prepares breads, rolls, muffins, cookies, pies, cakes, doughnuts, biscuits and other pastries, including icings and frostings, according to established recipes.
• Reviews production schedules to determine variety and quantity of goods to bake and to assemble supplies and equipment needed for daily baking activities.
• Spreads or sprinkles a range of various toppings on specialty baked items.
• Shapes dough for cookies, pies and fancy pastries either by hand or by using dough rollers and cookie cutters.
• Receives ingredients and other supplies from main kitchen and/or pantry as required for daily operations.
• Cuts and weighs dough into uniform portions with knife or divider, molds dough into loaves or other shapes, and places in pans; proofs dough and bakes in oven using peel; inspects product for quality during and after baking and makes adjustments to processes as required.
• Cleans and maintains work areas, utensils and equipment.
• Detects and ensures disposition of spoiled or unattractive food, defective supplies/equipment and/or other unusual conditions.
• Completes production sheets and other records as required.
• May be required to prepare baked goods for special diets.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills

• Clean professional appearance
• Baking experience is essential
• Ability to move throughout the café and kitchen
• Good HACCP knowledge or food ServSafe certified.
• Sense of urgency
• Excellent verbal skills
• Excellent multi-tasking skills

Education and Work Experience

• High School diploma or GED
• Culinary degree (preferred, but not required)
• ServSafe certified preferred
• 3-4 years minimum experience

Work Environment

• Fast paced kitchen environment
• High sense of urgency
• Large kitchen environment
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high
• Work involves considerable exposure to unusual elements such as: extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors and/or loud noises
• Pass a background check
• Must be able to stand a minimum of 8 hours a day

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk, taste, smell or hear. Ability to stand, walk, and sit for long periods of time. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move a minimum of 50 pounds of office and kitchen equipment (boxes, knives etc.) and ability to safely install devices. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. (Refer to the Physical Demand Descriptions for Café, Culinary and Kitchen.) Under The Americans with Disabilities Act reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization

Authorized to work in the U.S.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Flagship is an e