Join Our Team as a Lead Pastry Chef at Guillam Coffee House

Are you passionate about creating exceptional pastries, artisan breads, cakes, and desserts from scratch? Do you enjoy leading a team while maintaining the highest standards of quality and consistency? If so, we would love to welcome you to our brand-new café in the heart of St. James.

As our Lead Pastry Chef, you will oversee the daily production of all bakery and pastry items in a dedicated production kitchen with no service, allowing you to focus on crafting outstanding products in a well-organised and professional environment. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the pastry and bakery offering of our newest location while mentoring and developing a small production team.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Leading the daily production of artisan breads, pastries, cakes, desserts, and other bakery products.

• Planning production schedules to ensure products are prepared efficiently and meet daily business demand.

• Maintaining excellent mise en place and ensuring consistency across every batch produced.

• Preparing products to the highest quality standards by following recipes accurately and supporting standardised

production processes.

• Checking all products before dispatch to ensure quality, presentation, and consistency.

• Monitoring food costs, stock rotation (FIFO), yields, and minimizing waste.

• Assisting with stock ordering, inventory management, and maintaining accurate recipe documentation.

• Supervising, training, and mentoring junior members of the pastry team.

• Maintaining a clean, organised, and efficient production kitchen.

• Ensuring full compliance with food safety, HACCP, and health & safety regulations.

• Liaise with other departments and sites, escalating any issues to senior management when required.

Qualifications:

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Previous experience as a Lead Pastry Chef, Senior Pastry Chef, or similar supervisory role.

• Strong knowledge of artisan bread, pastry, cake, and dessert production.

• Experience leading, training, and developing junior team members.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• Strong attention to detail with a passion for quality and consistency.

• Good understanding of food safety, HACCP, stock control, and cost management.

• The ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced production environment.

• A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced production environment.

What We Offer:

• Full-time position: Up to 48 hours per week.

• Salary: £30,000 – £34,000 per annum, plus service charge (Tronc), depending on experience.

• No service – dedicated production role.

• The opportunity to help shape the pastry and bakery offering of a brand-new café.

• Career development opportunities within a growing business.

• Supportive and collaborative working environment.

Join Our Team as a Lead Pastry Chef at Guillam Coffee House

Are you passionate about creating exceptional pastries, artisan breads, cakes, and desserts from scratch? Do you enjoy leading a team while maintaining the highest standards of quality and consistency? If so, we would love to welcome you to our brand-new café in the heart of St. James.

As our Lead Pastry Chef, you will oversee the daily production of all bakery and pastry items in a dedicated production kitchen with no service, allowing you to focus on crafting outstanding products in a well-organised and professional environment. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the pastry and bakery offering of our newest location while mentoring and developing a small production team.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Leading the daily production of artisan breads, pastries, cakes, desserts, and other bakery products.

• Planning production schedules to ensure products are prepared efficiently and meet daily business demand.

• Maintaining excellent mise en place and ensuring consistency across every batch produced.

• Preparing products to the highest quality standards by following recipes accurately and supporting standardised

production processes.

• Checking all products before dispatch to ensure quality, presentation, and consistency.

• Monitoring food costs, stock rotation (FIFO), yields, and minimizing waste.

• Assisting with stock ordering, inventory management, and maintaining accurate recipe documentation.

• Supervising, training, and mentoring junior members of the pastry team.

• Maintaining a clean, organised, and efficient production kitchen.

• Ensuring full compliance with food safety, HACCP, and health & safety regulations.

• Liaise with other departments and sites, escalating any issues to senior management when required.

Qualifications:

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Previous experience as a Lead Pastry Chef, Senior Pastry Chef, or similar supervisory role.

• Strong knowledge of artisan bread, pastry, cake, and dessert production.

• Experience leading, training, and developing junior team members.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• Strong attention to detail with a passion for quality and consistency.

• Good understanding of food safety, HACCP, stock control, and cost management.

• The ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced production environment.

• A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced production environment.

What We Offer:

• Full-time position: Up to 48 hours per week.

• Salary: £30,000 – £34,000 per annum, plus service charge (Tronc), depending on experience.

• No service – dedicated production role.

• The opportunity to help shape the pastry and bakery offering of a brand-new café.

• Career development opportunities within a growing business.

• Supportive and collaborative working environment.