Bakery at Brites Management

SALARY: 20K

Duties:

• Promote, work, and act in a manner consistent with the mission of the Restaurant:
• To offer quality food, drinks, service and ambience to our clients.
• Coordinate with and assist fellow employees to meet guests’ needs and support the operation of the restaurant.
• Prepare a wide variety of goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, bread etc.
• Create new and exciting desserts to renew our menus and engage the interest of customer
• Decorate pastries using different icings; toppings etc. to ensure the presentation will be beautiful and exciting
• Monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget
• Maintaining the highest professional food quality and hygiene standards throughout the operation
• Ensure all baking equipment is maintained and cleaned appropriately
• Help train staff in baking and decorating skills

Requirements

• Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field
• Proven experience as Pastry Chef, baker or relevant role
• Innovative and creative to come up with different menus
• In depth knowledge of sanitation principles, food preparation and baking techniques and nutrition
• Working knowledge of baking with ingredient limitations (pastries that are gluten free, sugarless etc.)
• Able to work days, evenings and weekends
• Able to work in a standing position for long periods of time
• Excellent basic mathematical skills
• Able to understand and speak using the predominant language(s) of guests [ English, Swahili and Luhya]
• Able to safely reach, bend, stoop and frequently lift items weighing up to 20kg
• Great attention to detail and creativity