Job Description
The Hotel Baker position is responsible for preparing and baking bread, pastries and a variety of other baked goods.
This position will support the Land’s End Resort, a 117-room hotel, in Homer, AK.
Responsibilities
- Prepare food as indicated by par level sheets.
- Follows standardized recipes to meet nutritional needs.
- Attractively presents all items with appropriate garnish and correct portion size if applicable to product.
- Participate in daily temperature and taste panels to assure quality and provide suggestions for continuous improvements.
- Prepares and produces a wide variety of bakery products.
- Assists with pastry preparations including mixing, baking, and frying as indicated by production sheets.
- Portion control on all items produced.
- Assists in the preparation of bakery and specialty products such as pastries, bread, rolls, biscuits, and may also prepare cakes, pies, muffins, breads, puddings, parfaits, frosting, cookies, rolls etc.
- Communicates any adjustment that needs to be made to the bakery production records or sheets.
- Coordinates with supervisor personnel for ordering products.
- Responsible for a clean, neat storeroom area, with all products appropriately labeled and dated and rotated.
- Adheres to proper sanitation, safety, and operational procedures for assigned area. Cleans personal work area.
- Must be able to operate dish-washing machine to clean pots, pans, and baking sheets if needed.
- Actively supports and participates in performance improvement activities. May assist coworkers during staffing shortages.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Management Team.
- This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
- Other duties that are pertinent to the department or unit’s success may also be assigned.
Qualifications
- Must have a High School diploma or GED equivalent.
- At least two (2) years of demonstrated baking experience with documented knowledge of scratch baking and baking management.
- Must be able to follow standardized written recipes.
- Must have knowledge/training of usage of food production/baking equipment.
- Alaska Food Handler's Card required contingent upon 30 days of hire.
- Contract requires employees to speak, understand, read and write English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preference will be given to the candidate with a minimum of three (3) years of consecutive employment in a similar operation with comparable responsibilities.
- Associate’s degree in baking and/or culinary arts.
- Cake decorating experience.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
Weather: Indoors: environmentally controlled; requires most or all work to be done inside.
Noise level: Moderate to loud.
Description of environment: This is a commercial kitchen in a hotel setting.
Physical requirements: Employee is required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle or feel, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk/hear, see, taste/smell, and carry weight/lift.
Travel: None
Competencies
NMS Core Values
Safety guides our behavior.
Honesty and integrity govern our activities.
Commitments made will be fulfilled.
All individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
The environment will be protected and sustained.
