Cafe Lead Pastry Baker - Cedar Mill (INTERNAL ONLY)

Do you have a passion for creating delicious sweets? Are you an enthusiastic baker looking for a new challenge? Grand Central Bakery is now hiring a Pastry Lead to bake our handcrafted mouthwatering pastries! Come join our team!

The Pastry Lead’s role is an integral part of the efficient, enthusiastic team that makes Grand Central Bakery’s vibrant cafes such wonderful spaces. This position works to meet all specifications including quality, timing, and pars, while working to continually improve baking skills. Grand Central aims to be the best part of the customer’s day by providing delicious pastries and excellent customer service. The Pastry Lead acts as an ambassador from the Commissary Pastry to the cafes and from the cafes to the customers.

Please note that this position will assist cafe staff with customer service, order fulfillment, and other cafe duties during the standard hours of operation.

Location: 12595 NW Cornell Rd, Portland, OR 97229

Rate of Pay: This position pays $18.45 per hour.

• Tips average $8.00 - $10.00 per hour. 

Schedule: Full-time, 4 - 5 shifts per week.  Weekends and holidays are generally required along with keeping open schedule availability.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Must be at least 18 years old
• Ability to read, write, and speak English required
• Maintains food handler’s card – new hires are expected to have a valid card by their first date of work
• Basic math skills required
• 2+ year(s) professional pastry experience preferred
• Must demonstrate regular attendance by coming to work on scheduled working days and being on time
• Must display professionalism and personality with customers
• Management and training experience a plus
• Willing and able to cover shifts at different cafes

Physical requirements include but are not limited to:

• The Pastry Lead is expected to stand for 100% of the shift worked and walks up to the equivalent of two miles per shift and is expected to lift up to 50 lbs.
• This position requires participating in procedures that require a high level of repetitive motion involving the hands, wrists, arms, and back.
• The position involves working with heavy equipment including Hobart mixers, rack ovens, and reach-in freezers.
• Pastry Leads work in a bakery and are constantly exposed to wheat flour dust and other grain dusts (rye, corn, oat).

Company Overview

Grand Central Bakery ignited a bread revolution in 1989 by introducing rustic artisan loaves to Northwest tables. Values are at the heart of our company and sustainability touches everything we do - from where we buy ingredients to how we care for our employees and invest in our communities. A Certified B Corporation, Grand Central Bakery is part of a global movement of organizations using business as a force for good.

Pay Transparency

Grand Central Bakery complies with applicable pay transparency laws in the locations where it does business. All job postings include the rate of pay for the position. For positions that have a range, the full range will be listed along with the expected starting compensation.

Benefits

Grand Central Bakery offers outstanding employee benefits as part of our total compensation package including health insurance, paid time off, a 401k with match, employee discount, and bread! Check out our career page for information about our benefit offerings. https://grandcentralbakery.applytojob.com/apply/

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and strive to create a work environment of respect, trust, collaboration, and cooperation. It is the policy of Grand Central Bakery to maintain a workplace free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical, sensory, or mental disability, age, marital status, military or veteran status, family relationship, your or your family’s genetic information, or status in any other legally protected group. We expect each employee to embrace and apply these principles of equal treatment to each other and to our customers.

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