Pastry Cook | Hotel Du Pont | Wilmington, DE

1. Excited to learn, ready to work with a productive and passionate team, willing to share your creativity!
2. Daily bake-offs for retail and banquet desserts, breads, and pastries, ensuring product quality and consistency.
3. Scaling, mixing, shaping, baking of cakes, cookies, laminated doughs, quick-breads, Viennoiserie, fillings, breads, etc from scratch by correctly following recipes provided.
4. Filling, decorating, and finishing of cakes and specialty pastries.
5. Production of sauces, custards, ice creams and garnishes by correctly following recipes provided.
6. Maintenance of pars of pastries, desserts, and breads per requisitions sent by restaurant or coffee shop.
7. Plan production schedule on a daily and weekly basis in order to maintain stock of the freezer.
8. Ability to read and follow a Banquet Event Order and fulfill the menu needs detailed within.
9. Contribute creatively to recipe development, following a consistent high standard of flavor and aesthetic set by the Pastry Chef.
10. Keep work area clean and orderly; help clean and maintain kitchen in accordance with food safety and sanitation guidelines.
11. Ensure refrigerated foods and inventory are properly stored, rotated, and labeled according to food safety guidelines.
12. Communicate with the Pastry Chef when equipment needs servicing, or when ingredients, supplies, or smallware products need to be restocked.
13. Operate, maintain, and properly clean stove, food processor, mixers, dough sheeter, ovens, tempering machines, and other specialty bakery equipment.
14. Ability to adhere to deadlines, self-manage, and adapt to change.

Must have the ability to communicate in English.  Self-starting personality with an even disposition.  Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times. Can communicate well with guests and co-workers.  Must be willing to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.  Ability to lift/carry weight up to 50 pounds.  Ability to push/and pull carts of products weighing up to 150 pounds.

This probably goes without saying but you’ll be on your feet a lot. There will be occasions when you may be carrying/lifting up to 50 pounds, walking, bending/twisting, climbing stairs and working on slippery floors. You also must be able to accommodate varying schedules including nights, weekends and holidays. But wait, there’s a great upside: in exchange for your flexibility, we offer excellent pay, hotel discounts, F&B discounts and the opportunity to be part of an anything-but-standard growing hotel company.