Zingerman's Bakehouse Pastry Packager

Zingerman's Bakehouse is hiring a Pastry Packager to work on our team preparing hand crafted, artisan pastries to be enjoyed all over the country!

Are you the person always bringing baked goods to social gatherings? Do you believe in the power of a brownie to turn someone’s day around? Does making things look absolutely perfect bring you joy? Are you looking for a place where you can be yourself and do good work on a team? Join our experienced and dedicated team to create some of the best baked goods in Michigan. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! We’ll train you.

What can you expect?

• A welcoming workplace where you can bring your whole quirky self to work; it's appreciated and acknowledged.
• An active, physical job. (You’ll easily close those rings on your watch every day!)
• Fun and engaged teammates who support each other. 
• Packaging delicious and beautiful products to be proud of.
• Managing partners working with you side-by-side. (Our two current owners started as hourly staff, so they know your potential for growth.)
• A business education while you work! Learn Zingerman’s nationally-acclaimed business practices and put them into action. Hello resume builder!
• A discount at all Zingerman’s businesses and lots of free food.

Sound like the place you’ve been looking for? Please apply. Need more details? Keep reading!

What does the job pay?

Minimum starting pay is $16 per hour, wage negotiable on experience

Who are we?

Zingerman's Bakehouse is a wholesale bakery, retail shop, and baking school for home bakers. We sell to specialty food stores, cafés and restaurants in southeastern Michigan as well as selling to Zingerman's Mail Order, who ships our baked goods everywhere in the United States. We are dedicated bakers and food lovers committed to making and selling the best breads, pastries and cakes we can imagine. We are real artisan bakers, meaning we use traditional methods and flavorful ingredients to make our food.

Where is the job?

Zingerman’s Bakehouse is located at 3711 Plaza Drive. 

What are the availability requirements? 

We are hiring a packager to work 40 hours a week during the hours of 11 am and 9 pm. We work on weekends and holidays. We require full availability in October, November and December. (We don't take any extra time off during these months.) Education, baking experience or training in the culinary field is not required. 

What are the physical requirements of the job? 

We require the ability to stand, lift and bend for up to 8-hours, with breaks; the ability to lift up to 50 pounds repeatedly and the ability to work with repetitive motion including fine manipulation of hands and fingers.

What kinds of things do you do in this job?
Our pastry packaging team does a variety of essential tasks. A few examples are:

• Printing ingredient information and nutritional information stickers for a variety of products
• Weighing and packaging or fabulous croutons, or as we call them, Ruby’s Cubes 
• Sending our Magic Brownies through the flow wrapper as fast as you can
• Calibrating and running the shrink wrapper, sealing our coffee cakes to perfection
• Hand packaging a variety of cookies, brownies, and other treats
• Sorting, stickering, and labeling pastries for our many, wonderful wholesale customers

Are there any benefits or perks? 

• Up to 5 free loaves of bread each week
• Up to 65% discount on baked goods from the Bakehouse
• 40% discounts at other Zingerman's businesses, 50% at Zingerman’s Mail Order
• $1 sandwiches and/or salad made on site for employee lunch
• Paid training
• Paid lunch breaks
• Paid time off 
• 401k matching contribution after eligibility requirements are met
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides a variety of resources and services to employees and eligible dependents

Interested?

Submit your application today and you can expect to hear from us within a week by phone. If selected, you will receive a phone interview and an in-person interview. From there, you will hear from us to either offer you a position or let you know we are moving forward with other candidates. Our goal is to keep you informed along the way.