Confectioner

6 months ago

Century City, South Africa Spar Full time

**Position Title**: Pastry Chef/ Confectioner

**Reports to**: Bakery Manager

**Qualifications**: Matric

**Job Overview**: We are looking for an experienced Pastry Chef/ Confectioner to prepare a variety of desserts, pastries or other sweet goods. Your skill in baking high quality treats should be matched by your creativity to develop new amazing tastes and recipes.

The goal is to enhance customer satisfaction so that we can maintain and expand our clientele

**Duties**:

- Prepare a wide variety of goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, bread etc. following traditional and modern recipes
- Create new and exciting desserts to renew our menus and engage the interest of customers
- 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
- Check quality of material and condition of equipment and devices used for cooking
- 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

**Requirements**:

- Proven experience as Pastry Chef, baker or relevant role
- Great attention to detail and creativity
- Organizing and leadership skills
- Willingness to replenish professional knowledge
- 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.)
- Certificate in culinary arts, pastry-making, baking or relevant field
- Matric is essential

**Must be criminal clear.**

**PLEASE NOTE**: That only applicants with the legal right to work in SA will be considered for this position. Salary is Market Related, based on experience

**Job Type**: Contract
Contract length: 3 months

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Century City, Western Cape: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

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