Pastry Chef

**Pastry Chef**

**Sweet Art Bakery - Full Time**

**Port Coquitlam, BC.**

**Who are we?**

We are a wholesale bakery and pastry company that started our family business in 2004. Sweet Art Bakery’s founder, James Kotobi, was trained at Le Cordon Bleu institute several decades ago when he lived in France. He had his Café in Paris that he and his wife managed for several years before moving to Canada. In 2004, he opened his cafe in North Vancouver called Sweet Art Bakery Café, which offered European-style pastries. James decided to expand his business to wholesale when Wholefoods opened it’s first store in BC and came to him asking to showcase the sweets from his café. We now sell our products to major retailers such as wholefoods, Save-on-Foods, T&T Supermarkets, IGA, Fresh St. Market, Nesters Market, Choices Markets, and many other retailers across BC.

**Our Mission & Vision**:
We are committed to keeping the highest quality and taste from the beginning. Our vision is to be part of every family’s memorable moment in Canada, and our mission is to create the original non-manipulated taste of sweets by avoiding excess ingredients.

**Why Hiring?**

We are a growing company, and we plan to proliferate and develop our team who love the bakery and its environment first and enjoy being creative and passionate to get the most out of any challenges. We love to have colleagues who believe they can positively impact the world, however small it may be.

**Main Responsibilities**:
As a Pastry Chef at Sweet Art Bakery, you will:

- Work as part of a team to bake every day, following carefully unique recipes
- Be responsible for reading production schedules and recipes, measuring, mixing ingredients, molding, shaping dough, and processing everything through the ovens
- Oversee production and able to manage team members
- Guide and motivate pastry assistants and bakers to work more efficiently
- Monitor stocks for baking ingredients such as flour, sugar etc. and make appropriate orders within budget
- Identify staffing needs and train personnel

**Job Requirements**:

- Having a vision for your work, knowing what you want from you career path and planning to reach your vision and objectives
- Proven experience as Pastry Chef, baker or relevant role
- Have strong leadership skills
- Must be punctual and responsible
- Great attention to detail and creativity
- Willingness to replenish professional knowledge
- Good organizational skills, friendly and positive attitude
- Being responsible and committed to your work and time
- Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field
- Actively contributing to the training sessions and committed to learn new things

**Physical Requirements**:

- Constant use of both hands
- Continuous standing/walking
- Frequent lifting and carrying up to 22 Kg
- Ability to lift at least 2.5 Kg to a height of 1.7 metres

**Your Career Path**:
If you find yourself a person who has the vision to grow, Sweet Art Bakery is your home We train you to pride in your skills, help you find your potential and develop your career in your position through our development programs for being a supervisor, manager, and leader in your job.

**Job Type**: Full-time 40 hours per week

**Benefits**:

- Free parking on site
- Casual dress code
- Flexible schedule

**Schedule**:

- 8-hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Salary**: $18.00-$24.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Port Coquitlam, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Baking: 1 year (required)