Pastry Chef

Summary of Functions

Supervise and coordinate the production of desserts, confections, breads, fancy pastries, ice creams and holiday garnishes. Supports the presentation and setup for banquet service and REB

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures compliance with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians Internal Controls, and Northern Quest Resort & Casino Policies and Procedures.
• This position is responsible in assisting the Executive Banquet Chef with the overall management of the Bakery functions. Prepare all pastries and desserts items for the buffet, banquets and restaurants according to standard recipes
• Supervise all pastry staff including hiring, training, couching, and discipline.
• Scheduling appropriate number of team members according to daily needs, banquet functions and weekly forecast.
• Ensure proper storage of all pastry items chilled, frozen and hot to maintain freshness according to our Q&A guidelines.

• Ensures all recipe books are complete, accurate and updated.

• Assists with ongoing development and regular scheduled training for all bakery team members
• Test new products and recipes as trends and business levels dictate.
• Responsible for setting food specifications. Ensuring quality and menu specifications through accurate recipe adherence and use of standard operating procedures as set forth by INHS.
• Review food and labor costs of the all food operations with the Executive Banquet Chef.
• Attend scheduled meetings. Attend seminars when necessary to improve professional or personal development.
• Coordinates small ware needs with Chief Steward and assists preparing requisitions.
• Continually reviews kitchen operations for improvements in the food production areas to ensure standards and keep waste in line.
• Observes workers engaged in preparing and portioning foods to ensure that methods of cooking and garnishing and sizes of portions are as prescribed by recipe
• Gives instructions to all baker personnel in finer points of pastry preparation, as well as providing training.

• Ensure control and protection of company assets.

• Monitors and ensures all FDA guidelines are met.
• Maintains food and labor cost to meet or exceed budgeted percentages

• Assists in preparation of annual budgets

• Available and willing to work any changes in hours deemed necessary for business levels
• Responsible for maintaining a consistent, regular good attendance record.
• May be required to be a panelist for the Internal Review Hearings.
• Ensures that highest possible standards of guest satisfaction and Team Member relations are maintained and carried out in a fair and equitable manner conducive to that goal.
• This job description does not list all of the duties of this position. You may be instructed by management to perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervises 8-10 pastry prep personnel, carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable law. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Experience

• Five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Five years supervisory experience required. Pastry sous chef level or higher.
• Diverse baking and pastry skills and high volume experience necessary.
• Direct experience in an organizational development role strongly preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Must be computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft programs and other computer software.
• Diverse cooking skills within a multiple venue high volume resort property necessary.
• Direct experience in an organizational development role strongly preferred.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts related to food and labor costing.
• Ability to establish procedures for the effective implementation of the Executive Banquet Chef's directives. Prepare complex reports, correspondence, charts, layouts, forms, handbooks, memoranda and other information and instructions.
• Ability to analyze and solve complex management problems having non-standard solutions.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of the organization and the public.

• Communication liaison between all departments within the culinary division and all other departments in the Resort
• Skill in solving practical problems and dealing with situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Excellent organizational, communication, motivation, and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of general business administration including personnel practices.
• Skills in assessing operation, program, staffing and fiscal needs.
• Skill in identifying and resolving administrative problems under pressure conditions.

Education

• Culinary Arts/Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school preferred

Other Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tribal Gaming License.
• Washington State Food Handler Permit within 14 days of start date.
• Available and willing to work nights, weekends and holidays as required.

Physical Demands

• Requires the ability to lift and/or move objects weighing up to 75 pounds.
• Constantly requires the ability to give and receive detailed information through verbal communication.

• Constantly requires verbally expressing or exchanging ideas of essential instructions accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Constantly requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm.
• Constantly requires repetitive movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods.
• Requires ascending or descending stairs or ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Occasionally requires raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally.
• Requires stooping, which entails the use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Occasionally requires crouching.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to tobacco smoke, moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The worker is frequently subject to inside environmental conditions, which protect from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes, and is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions and wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Travel Requirements

Local travel is occasionally required. Travel outside the state is infrequently needed. Typical travel time is generally less than a week.

Hiring Preference

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is an Equal opportunity employer. Consistent with federal law, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians applies Indian preference in employment. It is the policy of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians to give preference in hiring, promotions, and transfers into vacant positions to qualified applicants in the following order: 1) Kalispel Tribal Members; 2) Spouses of an enrolled Kalispel Tribal Member; 3) enrolled members of other Indian Tribes; 4) all other applicants.

General Sign-off & Disclaimers

The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies.

At-Will Employment: Employment with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians is at-will and can be terminated with or without cause, and with or without notice, at any time, either at the option of the employee or the Kalispel Tribe of Indians.

Drug Testing: The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is a drug free workplace. All applicants are subject to drug testing at the time of hire and at unannounced times during employment.

Background Investigation: All candidates and employees may be subject to a background investigation.


This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

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