Baker
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Hospitality · Brisbane, QLD, Australia · Full-Time · $75,000 - $85,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
A busy bakery café in Brisbane, QLD, is hiring an experienced Baker for a permanent full-time role. The shop bakes bread, pastries and cakes fresh on site every day and takes orders for custom celebration cakes, so the work moves between steady production and careful finishing.
You would work 38 hours per week in an established business that is still expanding. A useful next step is to compare your experience with the duties and requirements below.
Overseas applicants are welcome, and visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
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Key Responsibilities
- Make sure raw materials meet quality standards before any baking starts
- Weigh and measure each ingredient with care
- Combine doughs, batters, cake mixes, pastry and fillings
- Turn dough and pastry into breads, rolls, cakes, tarts and more by moulding and portioning
- Prep baking trays and tins, fill the ovens and keep temperature and timing on track
- Use icing, cream, chocolate, fondant and sugar paste to glaze and decorate cakes and pastries
- Design and create custom celebration cakes when customers order them
- Set prices, package items and arrange the café display
- Work out the daily production plan so shelves are ready at opening
- Run and clean mixers, sheeters, provers and other machines in line with food safety, hygiene and WHS standards
- Help develop recipes and new products, and guide, supervise and train junior bakers and kitchen staff
Requirements & Eligibility
- Certificate III or IV in Baking or Patisserie (or higher study in culinary arts or patisserie), plus at least 1 year as a Baker, Pastry Chef or Pastrycook in a commercial bakery, patisserie or hotel kitchen
- Strong hands-on pastry, cake-making and decoration skills
- Sound understanding of food hygiene and safety, and readiness for early starts, weekend work and a rotating roster
- Desirable: fondant and custom cake design; desirable as well: leading a team or supervising a kitchen
- Desirable: time spent in a café or bakery facing customers
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