Head Baker/Bakery Manager

Location: Tysons Bakery, 8524J Tyco Rd, Vienna, VA 22182

Reports to: COO

Employment: Full-time

Schedule: On-site; nights, early mornings, weekends, and holidays as scheduled. Primary Hours are 4am to noon

Good Company Doughnuts & Cafe is looking for the right person to lead our central bakery team as an experienced baker and pastry production leader. Work alongside the team while owning production, employee development, quality, food safety, and cost control. The bakery team supplies doughnuts and baked goods to our cafés, catering orders, and approved wholesale accounts.

• →Plan daily production from café orders, forecasts, catering commitments, and capacity; coordinate shifts and delivery handoffs
• →Lead mixing, fermentation, proofing, frying, baking, filling, and finishing to approved recipes
• →Control dough temperature, timing, batch size, yield, weight, flavor, and appearance; correct defects and prevent recurrence
• →Hire with HR support, schedule, train, coach, and evaluate bakery employees; develop shift leaders and cross-training
• →Manage ingredient purchasing, in accordance with approved items and vendors, receiving, inventory, rotation, and traceability; monitor food cost, labor productivity, waste, and rework
• →Maintain sanitation, allergen controls, safe equipment use, and required records; coordinate inspections
• →Oversee packaging and order accuracy, manage café feedback, and coordinate maintenance to protect production continuity
• →Support approved recipe trials and seasonal launches; document procedures and obtain approval for recipe changes. Perform other related duties

• Five years of scratch baking or pastry production experience, including two years leading a production team, or comparable experience demonstrating these capabilities
• Practical command of doughs, fermentation, proofing, scaling, and pastry fundamentals; ability to diagnose quality issues
• Experience organizing batch production, staffing, inventory, and deadlines in a commercial bakery or pastry operation
• Ability to train employees, communicate instructions, and use scheduling, inventory, and cost-reporting tools
• Food-safety manager certification

• Central bakery or commissary experience supplying multiple locations; doughnut and fryer production experience
• Pastry Chef, Head Baker, or Bakery Production Manager experience; baking and pastry education or apprenticeship
• English and Spanish communication skills

Complete required company food-safety and job training; obtain any role-specific certification and local credentials by the specified training deadline.

Good Company Doughnuts & Café is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on job-related qualifications without unlawful discrimination. We provide reasonable accommodations in the application process and workplace as required by law. To request an application accommodation, please reach out.

Apply through gocodough.com/careers. Include a résumé describing your baking and pastry production experience, team leadership, and production scale. A portfolio or product photographs are welcome. Employment is subject to verification of authorization to work in the United States and any lawful, job-related screening requirements.