Baker

We are recruiting a Baker for a busy Brisbane bakery café that produces bread, pastries and cakes fresh every day and builds custom celebration cakes to order. This is a permanent full-time role at 38 hours per week.

What will catch the employer's eye? Proven commercial baking, confident pastry and decorating skills, and some experience guiding junior staff. Candidates who can show fondant work or custom cake design will stand out, as will anyone who has worked face to face with customers in a bakery or café.

Applicants from overseas are welcome, and visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.

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• Quality-check raw materials and accurately weigh every ingredient
• Prepare doughs, batters, cake mixes, pastry and fillings, and shape them into breads, rolls, cakes and tarts
• Load ovens and manage temperatures and timings, with trays and tins prepped
• Ice, glaze and decorate using cream, chocolate, fondant and sugar paste, and create celebration cakes to order
• Plan production and price, pack and present products so the café is fully stocked at opening
• Operate and clean mixers, sheeters and provers in line with food safety, hygiene and WHS standards
• Help develop new recipes and products, and train and supervise junior bakers and kitchen staff

• A Baking or Patisserie qualification at Certificate III or IV, or higher study in patisserie or culinary arts
• 1 year minimum as a Baker, Pastry Chef or Pastrycook in a commercial bakery, patisserie or hotel kitchen
• Strong hands-on pastry, cake and decorating skills and sound food hygiene and safety knowledge
• Ready for early mornings, weekends and rotating rosters
• Desirable: fondant skills and custom cake design; desirable too: supervising a kitchen or leading a team
• Desirable: experience in a customer-facing bakery or café