Pastry Chef - City Club

Overview

 Capital City Club Culinary Department is looking to hire an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and team-focused individual for a Full-time Assistant Pastry Chef. The position includes full-time hours, health vision, life, dental insurance, and 401(k) with a company match. 

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/fine dining with different styles of culinary operations available for development. 

Job Summary

Assist the Executive Pastry Chef and/or Executive Chef to consistently maintain quality output from the pastry department. Our Pastry Kitchen is a great environment for creative freedom and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Hires, trains, supervises, schedules and evaluates assistant pastry personnel.
• Plans, prepares and decorates special pastry items as necessary.
• Approves the requisitioning of all products and supplies needed for the bakery.
• Always maintain highest professional food quality and sanitation standards in the bakeshop, including those for personal hygiene.
• Establish controls to minimize food and supply waste and theft.
• Develops bakeshop recipes and techniques for pastry production, which help to assure consistent high quality.
• Exercise portion control standards over bake shop items.
• Assist in the development and monitoring of budget for bakeshop, takes corrective action when necessary.
• Communicates with executive chef, sous chefs, and catering department to ensure proper production output.
• Oversee all dessert plating for club functions, dining rooms, and special events.
• Any other duties as assigned by Executive Chef, or Club House Manager
• Recruit, train, and manage a skilled pastry team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Ensure all offerings reflect seasonal ingredients and cater to the preferences of the club’s members and guests.
• Safeguards all pastry shop employees by implementing training to increase

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Executive Pastry Chef or similar role in a luxury hospitality setting.
• Culinary degree or equivalent certification, specializing in pastry and baking.
• Strong knowledge of pastry techniques, baking processes, and plated dessert artistry.
• Ability to manage a team and work collaboratively with other departments.
• Proficiency in managing budgets, costs, and inventory.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Food safety certifications

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.