PASTRY SOUS CHEF, HOTEL DU PONT

Pastry Sous Chef, HOTEL DU PONT

Job Category : Food & Beverage Requisition Number : PASTR08112 Showing 1 location Job Details

Description

Job Summary

The Pastry Sous Chef is a well-rounded pastry professional with ideally at least 5 years experience in a professional bakery kitchen.

The ideal candidate will share in our passion for creating high quality, creative, from-scratch pastries, and is committed to furthering a service culture of exceeding our guests' expectations in an inspired and detail-oriented environment.

Summary of Essential Job Functions

• Daily bake-offs for retail, restaurant, and banquet desserts, breads, and other pastries, ensuring product quality and consistency.
• Filling, decorating, and finishing of cakes and specialty pastries.
• Production of sauces, custards, ice creams and garnishes by correctly following recipes provided.
• Maintenance of pars of desserts, breads, and pastries per requisitions sent by restaurant.
• Contribute creatively to recipe and business development, following a consistent high standard of flavor and aesthetic set by the Executive Pastry Chef.
• Keep work area clean and orderly; help clean and maintain kitchen in accordance with food safety and sanitation guidelines.
• Plan production schedule on a daily and weekly basis in order to maintain stock of the freezer and pars of restaurant and retail needs.
• Ensure proper receiving, storage (including temperature-setting), rotation, and labeling of food products so as to comply with health department regulations.
• Communicate with the Executive Pastry Chef when equipment needs servicing, or when ingredients, supplies, or smallware products need to be restocked.
• Operate, maintain, and properly clean stove, food processor, mixers, dough sheeter, ovens, tilt kettle, bread slicer, tempering machines, and other specialty bakery equipment.
• Ability to adhere to deadlines, self-manage, and adapt to change.
• Assist the Executive Pastry Chef with personnel functions as directed, including interviewing, training, resolving problems, scheduling production, and providing open communication.
• Adhere to control procedures for cost and quality.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform any other job-related duties as assigned.

Abilities Required

Must have the ability to communicate in English. Self-starting personality with an even disposition. Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.

Can communicate well with guests. Must be willing to pitch-in and help co- workers with their job duties and be a team player.

Thorough knowledge of food products, standard recipes and proper preparation. Ability to apply supervisory skills to plan, organize, direct, coach, train and discipline employees, as necessary.

Finger / hand dexterity in order to operate food machinery. Ability to grasp, lift and / or carry, or otherwise move goods weighing a maximum of 100 lbs.

on a continuous schedule.

Customer Satisfaction :

Our customers are what we are about. One of the keys to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with PM Hotel Group staff.

It is essential that you remain professional at all times, and that you treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances.

Every PM Hotel Group associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits :

In order to maintain a positive guest and associate experience, your work habits should always meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance.

You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and / or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job, and ask for help whenever you are not sure how to do something.

Safety & Security :

The safety and security of our guests and associates is of utmost importance to PM Hotel Group. Every PM Hotel Group associate should adhere to the hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.

NOTE :

This description excludes non-essential and marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of the fundamental job duties.

Furthermore, the specific examples in each section are not intended to be all-inclusive. Rather, they represent the typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully.

Other job-related duties may be assigned by the associates supervisor.

Furthermore, this description is subject to change, at the sole discretion of the Company, and in no way creates an employment contract, implied or otherwise;

each associate remains, at all times, an at will associate.

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Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)