Pastry Cook

Company - Thombro Pty Ltd t/as Lawleys Bakery Cafe

Position : Full Time

Salary : $80,000 a year

Location : Malaga, Perth WA

About Lawleys Bakery-Cafe

Lawleys Bakery-Café is a prominent family business with multiple outlets in Perth and are looking to expand and are seeking someone to help them grow.

We are a well-established business in Perth with over 200 employees. All of our key staff are of long serving, which shows we are a honest and successful company

Qualifications

Certificate 1 in food processing Retail Baking.

Certificate 111 in Food Processing Retail Baking Combined of overseas equivalent

Employment Experience

1 Year with qualifications

3 Years without qualifications

Pay slips essential to prove experience

Essential Skills

The candidate filling the position will be expected to have the following skills:

Responsibilities

Prepare a wide variety of goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, etc. following traditional and modern recipes

Decorate pastries using different icings, toppings etc. to ensure the presentation will be beautiful and exciting

Create new and exciting desserts to renew our menus and engage the interest of customers

Check quality of material and condition of equipment and devices used for cooking

Monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget

Guide and motivate pastry assistants and bakers to work more efficiently

Identify staffing needs and help recruit and train personnel

Maintain a lean and orderly cooking station and adhere to health and safety standards

Tasks Include:

Produce all baked goods yeasted goods, cakes, biscuits and pastry goods.

including but not limited to artisan muffins, laminated Danish, laminated croissants and doughnuts etc.

Ensuring all raw ingredients are to Lawleys standards and fresh

Check all preparation areas are clean to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations

Skilled hand writing on cakes, and able to do finishing of cakes which includes glazing buns and pastries, and decorating cakes with cream and icing

Ability to knead, cut, mix, mould and shape dough and pastry goods

Weigh and mix ingredients, knowledge of maturing procedures for mixes

Control mixing times and transfers dough to tempering rooms.

Prepare pastry and cake mixes

Mix, mould and shape pastry dough.

Loads pastries and cakes into ovens, and unload cooked products.

Control baking times and monitor the temperature and appearance of products

Empty, clean and grease baking trays, tins and other cooking equipment