Bakery Cook

Bakery Cook

The Brattleboro Food Co-op is owned by thousands of local shareholders and is committed to improving the quality of life for our community, one meal at a time. We offer competitive wages, great benefits, and an excellent work-life balance.

Purpose: To prepare excellent quality breakfast and dessert items in a timely and efficient manner: to accurately follow recipes; to assess and produce what is needed each day; support with catering events on site as needed.

Status: Reports to Assistant Bakery Manager

Customer Service:

• Assists customers with questions in a prompt and courteous manner
• Provide attentive and courteous customer service
• Maintain a polite, friendly and helpful attitude towards internal and external customers
• Product Knowledge:
• Knowledgeable about all bakery products. Continues to learn about new products. Ability to answer questions accurately.
• Product Presentation and Quality:
• Ensure quality food preparation, presentation and execution
• Safety:
• Handles all equipment in a safe manner
• Alert to unsafe equipment and removes any equipment that is unsafe from usage
• Teamwork:
• Ensures department teamwork through trust and communication
• Accountability:
• Accepts responsibility for personal decisions and actions. Exemplifies honesty, integrity and ethics
• Contributes constructively to the morale of the department
• Shows initiative in solving issues and achieving the departmental goals

Job Specific Functions:

• Preparation of all bakery items promptly and efficiently as assigned
• Facilitating all aspects of service, supporting catering events, and meals as needed including: maintaining the desserts and bakery rack items during store hours
• Ensure and facilitate kitchen cleanliness as needed or assigned
• Ensure that equipment is well maintained, and to notify appropriate personnel of any equipment failures or malfunctions in a timely fashion
• Put away orders follow receiving protocols as defined in training
• Ensure high quality of products, and quality standards
• Accurately follow recipes using proper measurements with a mind to menu specific alterations as directed by a supervisor
• Maintain appropriate par levels of product
• Maintain clean and orderly work stations
• Plan and participate in cleaning projects as assigned
• Adhering to the site's code of conduct as defined during training
• Provide training to new team members as assigned
• Adhere to established safety and sanitation standards
• Wash own dishes throughout shift, support dishwasher with bakery items
• Accurately inputting shrink data as needed
• Able to work in freezing temperatures to hot temperatures. Going from the kitchen to walk in freezer and back to collect ingredients as necessary.
• Able to stand for long periods of time, on your feet all shift up to 8 hrs a day
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Self-motivated, organized, responsible, flexible
• Effective communication skills
• Professional baking experience; 3-5 years practical application. Bread baking, pastry, culinary education, and catering production; large scale food service bakery production experience highly preferred
• Quick and proficient cooking skills, knife work, and an understanding of large scale production
• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Ability to understand and follow directions
• Ability to understand and meet standards for health, safety, and excellence
• Ability to remain alert and focused in an environment that is noisy and fast-paced
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Detail-oriented and thorough

At Brattleboro Food Co-op, we do not just accept difference we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Brattleboro Food Co-op is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.