Pastry Chef De Partie

The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 26,139 - 37,229; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401K

Employee discounts

Job summary

The Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston seeks a Pastry Chef de Partie to assist in managing high-quality pastry production in a luxury kitchen. Responsibilities include overseeing daily operations, supporting recipe development, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of experience in a high-volume luxury kitchen, possess excellent communication skills, and work well in a team environment. Starting salary at $23.00 per hour with benefits including paid time off, 401K, and employee discounts.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of experience in a high-volume luxury-oriented kitchen preferred.
• Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays required.
• Physical demands: Ability to lift 50 pounds regularly and prolonged standing required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with pastry production, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Conduct daily lineups and assist with training.
• Manage inventory and food cost alongside Sous Chefs.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Creativity

Job description

Overview

The Post Oak Hotel is seeking a Pastry Chef de Partie to join the only double Forbes Five-Star Hotel in Texas. We hire passionate and professional colleagues who genuinely delight our guests through curated and authentic experiences.

The Pastry Chef de Partie's primary responsibility is to assist the Pastry Chef and Pastry Sous Chef to effectively supervise and manage the onboard Pastry Production by ensuring exceptional quality, creativity, attention to detail, and consistency in accordance with the hotel’s standards and reputation for luxury and excellence while leading the team by example.

Responsibilities

• Follow all policies and procedures as outlined by The Post Oak Hotel Employee Handbook
• Assist with planning of recipe creation, development, execution and implementation of SOP’s and training
• Conduct daily lineups with colleagues in the absence of the Senior Chefs
• Assist Sous Chefs with inventory, ordering ingredients, managing food cost and quality control
• Maintain kitchen logs for food safety programs and food products
• Ensure kitchen compliance and work in a safe manner following Texas sanitation guidelines, rules and regulations
• Identify and determine what the minimum standard is acceptable for product quality is and make sure that no product is served that fails to meet that minimum standard
• Ensure the colleagues uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional; maintain confidentiality of proprietary information; protect company assets

Qualifications

• Aspire to our values of being passionate, strive for excellence, remain relevant, collaborate and act with honor and integrity.
• Three to five of experience working in a high-volume luxury-oriented kitchen preferred
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Creative in finding methods to improve the efficiency of the department to increase productivity and strategic implementation of them.
• Previous hotel experience, luxury or Forbes experience preferred
• Ability to work flexible schedules, including nights, weekends and holidays is required.
• Physical demands: Ability to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis and prolong extended periods of standing and repetitive motions frequently

What We Offer You

• Multiple benefit plans to suit your needs
• Paid Time Off
• 401K
• Opportunities for advancement
• Positive and respectful work environment where diversity is valued
• Generous employee discounts on dining, retail, amusements, and hotels
• Community volunteer opportunities
• Complimentary parking and colleague meal

Disclaimer: The above information is intended as a high-level overview of the responsibilities and qualifications for the position and does not represent the full job description which will include all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, and working conditions associated with the job. For more information or to see the full job description, contact the Human Resources department at the location in which you are applying.

Posted Salary Range

Starting from USD $23.00/Hr.

Tipped Position

This position does not earn tips.