Job Vacancy for Pastry Chef / Baker at Darls Delicious

Company Description:

Darls Delicious is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pastry Chef / Baker

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Baker is responsible for creating an assortment of desserts, including pastries, cakes cookies and other confections.
• Craft high quality recipes, develop seasonal offerings for the hotel guest, visitors and maintain quality standards and consistency of product.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages all day-to-day operations of the pastry and bakery section of the kitchen
• Ensures and monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget
• Ensure compliance with food hygiene and Health and Safety standards
• Ordering new supplies, ingredients and equipment for pastry section when needed and within budget
• Check quality of material and condition of equipment and devices used for cooking
• Must possess a positive attitude and have the ability to work with a variety of people and in cooperation with co-workers efficiently and effectively
• Maintain a lean and orderly cooking station and adhere to health and safety standards
• Create new and exciting desserts to renew our menus and engage the interest of customers
• Able to produce all baked dish including but not limited to artisan breads and rolls, cakes, cookies, pies, muffins, laminated Danish, laminated croissants and doughnuts, toasts and sandwich
• Develop, designs and creates new ideas for pastry kitchen
• Decorate pastries and desserts using different types of icings, toppings to ensure food presentation will be beautiful and exciting

Requirements

• 1 year experience working within the food industry as a pastry chef, baker, or relevant role. Recent Graduates of Baking/Culinary Schools will be considered.
• Minimum Qualification – SSCE
• Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field
• Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment
• Good understanding of the restaurant business, budgets and time management skills
• In depth knowledge of sanitation principles, food preparation and baking techniques and nutrition
• Excellent knowledge of baking with ingredient limitations (pastries that are gluten free, sugarless etc.)
• Creativity and flexibility ability with artistic skill in decorating cakes and other desert
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• MUST live around Isolo, Oshodi, Ikeja and environs

Application Closing Date
26th June, 2020.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@darls-delicious.com using the "Job Title" as the subject of the email.