Are you passionate about making laminated pastries in a family-style team environment? We want to meet you! Our neighborhood bakery is actively growing and looking for a strong team member to come in and grow with us. Benefits include a set schedule with consecutive days off each week, 50% off quality staff meals. Submit your resume and get to know us!
Position Title:Baker Lamination specialist
Team: Bake Team
Start Time - 7:30am-3:30pm
Supervisory Responsibility:N/A
Reports To:General Manager & Department Lead
Position Description:Produces laminated croissants, pastries, other bakery products. Works quickly in a small team environment with a reliable and positive outlook.
Responsibilities of Position:
- Contributes positively and respectfully in a small team work environment.
- Has a high-quality focus with efficiency in mind.
- Versatile and flexible with weekly product variations & volume changes.
- Capable of multitasking and excellent with time management. Can adjust their production schedule to meet deadlines of customer orders. Prioritizes tasks accordingly.
- Capable of increasing speed during high stress timeframes during wedding season & holidays to support the team with our ultimate goal of excellent customer experiences.
- Able to work independently and self-manage time.
- Accepts constructive feedback to meet standards. Eager to learn & grow with the company
- Understands and follows through on verbal and written directions.
- Strong communication skills. Has ability to ask for assistance when needed. Easily communicates with team members about production timelines.
- Contributes positively with ideas that would add value to the bakery.
- Actively works to control waste and product loss.
- Able to pivot and perform other tasks as assigned.
Additional Position Details:
- Maintains a clean working environment both with opening and closing duties.
- Actively conscientious of other team members by maintaining a balanced workflow of dish cleaning, sweeping, mopping, wiping down equipment, emptying garbage, and other tasks related to an operational kitchen with shared duties.
- Maintains inventory & stock counts of products and ingredients
- Focuses on Mise en Place, returns equipment to home locations for others use.
- Knows how operate large mixers, burners, sheeters, common knife skills, ability to move about the kitchen safely.
- Produces products within guidelines of food & safety standards.
- Scales, mixes, shapes and bakes bakery products. Maintains fermentation methods.
- Receives and unloads merchandise; checks quality, count and condition. Communicates any issues to management.
- Stocks, rotates and faces products with attention to product quality and expiration dates. Monitors inventories & ordering when tasked to do so.
- Participates in group communications in regards to new products, sales, and updates regarding the team and the business.
- Demonstrates familiarity with products in department, with ability to continue learning.
- Verbal with management in regards to events that may affect safety, productivity, security or any other situation that may have an adverse effect on the bakery.
MUST HAVE:Food Handler’s card
Qualifications
- Experience of artisan baking techniques and industry standard equipment required.
- Basic math and computation skills required.
- Skills to work independently, effectively manage own time and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Skills to adapt to the shifting priorities and needs of a bakery environment.
- Skills to communicate when under pressure required.
- Self-motivated, with high attention to detail, quality and presentation.
- Skills to collaborate and communicate effectively and professionally in a team environment and one on one with coworkers, supervisors, and owners.
- Skills to read, understand and follow through on verbal and written instructions.
- Ability to maintain a flexible schedule in order to meet needs of the department.
- Ability to reliably meet required work schedule and adhere to company attendance policy.
Physicality
- Ability to stand on feet for entirety of shift with swift movements through kitchen with production duties.
- Continuously required to: use arms, hands and wrists; grasping/squeezing
- Frequently required to: lift and carry 1-20 pounds
- Occasionally required to: lift and carry 21-50 pounds
- Occasional step stool use required.
Our Space
- Our production environment has a lot of movement, some tight quarters and areas that can be wet, slippery, louder, and temperature extremes in controlled environments in the cooler, freezer, and bakery.
- Exposure to dust, gluten, nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, occasional raw meats, and other items with seasonal menu updates
We as a company reserve the right to change or update the duties and responsibilities of this position as necessary to the company as it continues to grow.
Check us out on social media:
- https://www.instagram.com/luxsucredesserts/
- https://www.facebook.com/LuxSucreDesserts/
Lux Sucre is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and invite all qualified candidates to apply.
Pay: $22.00 - $24.00 per hour
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Wilsonville, OR 97070: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- OUR BAKERY IS LOCATED IN A CONVENIENT AREA ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE PORTLAND METRO AREA, HOWEVER IT DOES REQUIRE RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION AS THE BUSSES ARE NOT FREQUENT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. HAVE YOU MAPPED YOUR COMMUTE TO OUR LOCATION & DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION?
- THIS POSTION REQUIRES EXPERIENCE WITH LAMINATION PROCESSES (ie: use of a sheeter, a clear understanding of correct butter & dough temps, shaping of various Danish & pastries, high volumes of product per day, etc.) WHAT LEVEL IS YOUR CONFIDENCE WITH THIS TASK?
A) LOW- I have never used a sheeter or laminated before
B) MEDIUM- I learned the process in culinary school but have yet to do it professionally
C) HIGH- I have 6 months of more of experience working with a sheeter & laminating professionally
Work Location: In person
