Production Baker - Flour Breadquarters - 1 Design Center Place, Boston MADo you love working in a bustling kitchen with a great team environment?Are you a fanatic about baking and making perfect pastries?If so, we have the opportunity for you! Flour Bakery + Cafe is now hiring for a PRODUCTION FOCUSED baker at our state of the art Big Kitchen in the Seaport!This is a full-time position with potential to grow with Flour Bakery. Bakers have the opportunity to work every station to get a well-rounded perspective on the pastry operations in the bakery.The shift time for this position is generally 2pm-10pmDay-to-day Performance Expectations:
- Arrive at work for your scheduled shift on time (Flour time = 5 minutes early!)
- Help to maintain an overall positive team environment
- Provide open communication with your managers about the bakeries on-goings, changes, the team, and ideas for improvement
- Maintain proper communication with your fellow team members
- Demonstrate the ability and self awareness to know when you need your manager or fellow employees to help you
- Ability to keep calm while trouble-shooting
- Maintain the Flour standard of quality (MOM test) for all items produced
- Maintain the organization and sanitation standards of the Flour kitchen
- Ensure that your station and work areas are clean, tidy, and properly set up for the next day before leaving the premises
- The shift is very physically active, you are constantly on your feet and moving through the kitchen
Production Focus Requirements: - Exhibit proficiency of all production baker tasks, including but not exclusive of:
- Making base doughs (brioche, laminated, enriched, pie/tart, muffin/sconce batters)
- Making and assembling cakes
- Making frostings and glazes
- Ability to consistently make recipes and speak up when something seems amiss
- Stove-top production such as chocolate pudding, lemon curd
- Oven production such as coffee cake, banana bread
- cleaning and closing kitchen
- Packaging products to be delivered to bakeries
- lifting up to 60lbs
- Proficient knife skills, operating up to an 80 quart hobart mixer, using the dish washing machine
**Upon proficiency in execution of a focus area, as desired by you, we love being able to cross-train our bakers on as many projects as they are interested in learning and the kitchen is able to accommodate at that time! ** Skills for Qualification:
- At least 1 year of professional baking experience required
- You must enjoy a fast paced, high volume kitchen environment, be driven and have self motivation, and an eye for detail.
- Possess a strong work ethic, be well-organized and positive
- Be extremely enthusiastic about pastry and working as part of a fun-loving team
- Open availability to work, including weekends and holidays.
- We ask for a year commitment for this position.
Compensation:The starting wage for this position is $17-$19 per hour ($17 per hour + a shared percentage of the sales known as the BOH appreciation, which on average adds around $2 per hour).Additional Information: Flour offers a fantastic work environment, an unparalleled commitment to training to make you a better team member (plus all the pastries you can eat)! We offer benefits such as health/dental/vision insurance, 401k with a generous match, paid vacation/sick time, and a great staff meal policy. We offer a real commitment to growth - both in your skill/knowledge and growing into more senior positions if that is an interest of yours!Compensation: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour find your callingpeople who work at Flour come from all different walks of life...and there are a few characteristics that we all share.working hard, doing a great job, the camaraderie of our co-workers, looking at things with a thoughtful and critical eye, we all have a great sense of humor (if we do say so ourselves!), we give and accept feedback with grace and we encourage each other to speak up when suggestions come to mind.if these traits sound familiar and you have a passion for delicious food, please apply! we look forward to receiving your application.growthat Flour any path is possible. our current leaders started at every level and continue to grow every day. if you are eager to learn, open to feedback and committed to never settling for mediocrity there is no limit to your growth with us!Flour offers a fantastic work environment and an unparalleled commitment to training to make you a better team member (plus all the pastries you can eat)! on top of competitive benefits and pay, we offer a real commitment to growth - both in your skill/knowledge and growing into more senior positions.we can't wait to meet you...this could be the start of something sweet!