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Are you looking to be part of a growing and dynamic high-end culinary team? Do you love a challenging, fast-paced work environment?
We have an immediate opening for dedicated, dependable, hard-working, creative professionals to join our airline catering company—located at Houston InterContinental Airport.
Abby’s Aircraft Catering provides the best quality food products to high-end aviation and commercial airline customers, and we are looking for a dedicated Pastry chef.
Summary:
The Pastry Chef coordinates and supervises bakery food production activities for Abby’s Catering. The incumbent provides quality and service of bakery products S/he will maintain high sanitation, food safety, and security standards for bakery operations. The Pastry Chef is also responsible for meeting budgetary objectives for food, labor, and supply costs.
Essential functions:
- Leadership, Management and Accountability
- Comply with all Food Safety rules and regulations
- Scheduling the team according to production volumes
- Passionate about making beautiful baking products and pastries, which involves transforming raw ingredients into something beautiful, an array of delectable and warm treats
- Creativity sets the pastry chef apart from the rest. Being creative confers the ability to produce new forms of pastries to the eating pleasure of clients.
- The Pastry Chef coordinates and supervises bakery food production activities
- She/he will maintain high standards of sanitation, safety, and security for bakery operations
- Bakes cakes, pies, cookies, loaves of bread, and a variety of pastries
- Decorates pastries such as icing cakes with cake piping skills and pastry presentation
- Provides training and development for bakery team
- Performs annual employee performance evaluations for bakery team
- Responsible for ordering bakery products and ingredients
- Accountable for maintaining proper inventories using first-in, first-out system
- Supervises pastry team members daily workspace
- Know of new developments and emerging pastry making ideas
- Prepare baked foods, such as bread, alongside pastries and desserts
- Research and develop recipes
- Closely inspect the measure and quality of ingredients used for each preparation
- Liaise with ingredient suppliers and choose carefully the components required for baking needs
Pastry Chef Job Description
Qualifications:
- Four years of related experience in kitchen supervision of baking and pastry production and the training, hiring recommendations of staff, and intern evaluation
- Instead of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year for year basis may be substituted
- Certified Food Handler’s Permit as issued by the City of Houston Health Department or the ability to obtain within 14 days of employment
- Must be able to foster teamwork; train, supervise and direct the work of staff and interns members
- Knowledge of foodservice computer applications
- Experience with catering, pastry, and baking operations
- Certified Executive Pastry Chef (CEPC) by the ACF preferred
- Excellent attention to detail with a focus on accuracy, being exact, and an eye for detail
- Must be able to detect scents and discern flavors
- Demonstrated strong business sense
- Excellent creativity and organizational skills to cook precisely and efficiently with good presentation, keeping order and structure
- Expert in culinary with demonstrated ability to cook, knowledge of the kitchen, possess knife and tasting skills, ability to recognize flavors and to judge the balance of seasonings
- Sound decision making and agility skills to make multiple decisions quickly, efficiently, simultaneously, and at the last second
- Ability to motivate staff to keep everyone working at a fast, efficient pace as a team, including the cooks, bussers, waiters, other staff, and management
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Strong multitasking ability to address staff issues while working on other elements of an event, meal, or project
- Excellent verbal and written and communication skills
- LIGHT – Exert up to 25 lbs. of force occasionally
- Requires walking or standing up to eight hours per day
- Other physical requirements of the job include manual dexterity and the ability to see, hear, reach, climb, and balance
Company Core Values:
Abby’s Catering strongly promotes and cultivates its company core values. It is necessary for all employees to internalize such five company core values.
- Customer Driven
- Accountability
- Teamwork
- Competitiveness
- Honesty
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