Job title: Baker 2
Company: Great Harvest
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Location: Crown Point, IN
Baker 2 Job Details:
Great Harvest Bakery Cafe
Crown Point, IN
Job Description
Sweets Baker
ABOUT GREAT HARVEST CROWN POINT
Great Harvest is located in Crown Point, IN at the intersection of Broadway and Summit. We are looking to build a team that aligns with our vision of creating healthy and delicious products, welcoming customers and providing them with excellent service, and investing in our community.
OUR VISION
We strive to be a bakery known for our excellent baked goods and incomparable customer service. We serve as a generous, authentic contributor within our community and provide an unrivaled place to gather as friends and family to strengthen meaningful relationships. Our products make people feel good about themselves and enhance their choices to create a healthy lifestyle.
We value family and genuinely include all people with a desire to be a force for good in their lives. Our bakery/café reflects these values through equality in collaboration, investment in team members, and involvement in our community. We will leave our corner of the world a better place than we found it.
PURPOSE
Create consistently excellent sweets by making doughs with precision and mastery. Develop an intuitive sense of sweet-making through a strict attention to detail which will allow you to consistently create superior quality baked goods. To establish and maintain the production pace, by beginning and completing sweets with exactness, according to a strict time schedule. To lead by example, be cross-trained in all positions and to handle minor problems when the owners or managers are not in the bakery.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:
Ensures that all doughs have ingredients according to Great Harvest recipes and have been mixed properly.
Uses multi-timer pins, thermometers, product knowledge and intuitive judgment to adjust baking duration to ensure that all baked products meet Great Harvest standards of quality and consistency.
Uses measuring devices, thermometers, mixer, product knowledge and intuitive judgment to prepare doughs according to Great Harvest’s standards of quality and consistency.
Develop a “single item” attitude about dough work recognizing that every customer judges the entire business on the bakery he or she is eating.
Visits the kneading table and breadboard regularly, to observe and experience the doughs produced, to determine moisture and consistency and ensure the quality of work. Also takes bakery home to determine how it ages and to ensure that it maintains an unrefrigerated “shelf-life” of at least a week.
Maintains records on dough consistency and dough temperatures, and bakery and water temperatures in order to learn patterns of consistency and learn how to adapt to fluctuating variables.
Washes used bowls and utensils from sponge and dough and sweets production.
Follows all company policies and procedures.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned and takes initiative to enhance the bakery’s quality and consistency.
Be available extra hours during holiday seasons (Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas at a minimum).
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Exhibits JOB AND PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE sufficient to make doughs according to established recipes, yet intuitive enough to compensate for fluctuating variables so that optimum dough consistency is achieved for every batch.
Exhibits ENERGY sufficient to maintain a continuous high-level of productivity and enthusiasm while on duty and possesses the stamina to work the early-morning shift regularly.
Exhibits STRESS TOLERANCE sufficient to perform duties with a positive attitude, even when faced with difficult or unusual pressures or circumstances.
Exhibits ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS sufficient to ensure that doughs are completed with accuracy and according to time schedules, without slowing down the production flow.
Exhibits INITIATIVE sufficient to perform assigned duties without regular reminders; and sufficient to be actively engaged in improving the atmosphere of the bakery.
Exhibits COST CONSCIOUSNESS sufficient to eliminate mistakes that would create non-sellable products.
Exhibits COMMUNICATION SKILLS sufficient to effectively give and receive information to customers, co-workers and management; and sufficient assertiveness to make needs and concerns known in a constructive way.
Exhibits LEADERSHIP SKILLS sufficient to lead by example, constructively direct the work of fellow employees and handle problems when they arise.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Must be at least 18 years of age and have a telephone.
Must be dependable and work all scheduled shifts, including early morning shifts.
Must exhibit high standards of personal cleanliness.
Must be able to lift and carry loads of 60 pounds (the weight of a bushel of wheat) and perform other physically strenuous mixing tasks throughout the production shift, with or without accommodation.
Must be able to remain standing throughout their entire shift with or without accommodation.
Be on time; maintain a positive attitude (so as to encourage a positive impact on bakery atmosphere and morale); maintain positive working relationship with owners and fellow crewmembers; perform all duties with customer effect in mind and prioritize accordingly; hustle at all times, yet work neatly.
EXPERIENCE
Stable work history required. Sweet baking experience unnecessary; position will receive on-the-job training.
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