Assistant Pastry Chef
Capital City Club - Brookhaven's Culinary Department is looking to hire an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and team-focused individual for a full-time pastry cook position. The position includes full-time hours, health vision, life, dental insurance, 401(k) with acompany match, hot meals, free parking, and uniforms.
The ideal individual is creative, career-oriented, well organized, works with cleanliness and sanitation procedures, and excels in a team environment. The operation is considered high volume with different styles of culinary operations available.
Job Summary: Assist the pastry chef to consistently maintain quality output from the pastry department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment
- Assist in the production of pastry items, while maintaining adequate levels of mise en place
- Maintain quality levels of dessert items for pantry line production
- Assist with banquet functions, food production, plate-up, etc.
- Understand the responsibilities of other departments and cooperate with them
- Follows and enforces objectives, policies, standards, and procedures set by the executive chef
- Inspect portioning, garnishing, and decorations meticulously
- Maintain awareness of scheduled business as well as anticipated business
- Makes recommendations and suggestions to the chef as to new concepts that can be incorporated into the Capital City Club menu
- Ensure maintenance requests are passed to the chef in a timely manner
- Assure that the pastry area is not left unattended
- Perform other specific duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications (not required):
- 2 years minimum experience
- High volume experience
- Fine dining
- Hotel and/or private club setting
- Plated desserts experience
- Bread production experience
- Willingness to learn and grow
- Career oriented
- Flexible work schedule (weekends and holidays)
- Able to lift 50lbs
- Able to stand for extended periods of time
- Culinary degree, baking and pastry or certificate (preferred)
- Servsafe certified (not required to start)
- Ability to communicate effectively with others
- Ability to prioritize and complete daily tasks
- Ability to follow recipes
- Proficient at making pastry sauces
Reports to: Pastry Chef
All job applicants at this company who have been offered employment will need to undergo testing for the presence of illegal drugs as a condition for employment.