Baker

Job Overview

This role requires a skilled baker to prepare and produce various baked goods adhering to recipes and customer specifications. The position is based onsite in a bakery and café environment located in an urban area in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The workplace is non-smoking, temperature controlled with air conditioning, and involves a hot work environment. The role includes operating baking machinery, maintaining product quality, and training staff.

Responsibilities

• Mix dough for breads, rolls, pies, and sweet items, plus batters for muffins, cookies, cakes, icings, and frostings as per recipes and custom orders.
• Bake prepared doughs and batters to completion ensuring quality standards are met.
• Train kitchen and baking staff in food preparation, cooking techniques, and safe food handling practices.
• Prepare and decorate cakes and other bakery goods including frosting.
• Operate kitchen machinery and maintain inventory of ingredients and supplies.
• Prepare special orders and ensure their timely completion.
• Manage kitchen cleanliness and sanitation, including washing and sanitizing utensils, equipments, surfaces, and floors.
• Perform general kitchen tasks such as sharpening knives, peeling vegetables and fruits, taking and handling customer orders, stocking displays, packaging take-out items, and waste disposal.
• Assist cooks with meal preparation and demonstrate new cooking methods and equipment.
• Handle receiving, unpacking, and storing supplies properly.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education in a relevant field such as College/CEGEP or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Two to less than three years of professional baking experience.
• Food Safety certification is mandatory.
• Capability to work physically demanding tasks, including lifting up to 23 kg, standing for long durations, repetitive motions, and work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Ability to distinguish colors and maintain high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Good hand-eye coordination and physical dexterity for tasks such as peeling, cutting, and operating machinery.
• Must be bondable and able to pass a basic security and criminal record check.

Additional Details

• The work is fully onsite; remote work is not available.
• Uniforms and necessary tools will be provided.
• Relocation expenses are not covered by the employer.
• Experience working in bake shops, cafés, coffee shops, or retail bakeries in urban settings is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, dependability, client focus, initiative, teamwork, organization, and flexibility are highly valued for this role.