Pastry Chef, Clark's Houston

Job Title: Pastry Chef

Reports to: Executive Chef

Employment Status: Full-Time, Exempt-Salary

We are looking for a team leader who is energetic, detail-oriented, analytical, rigorous, highly organized, passionate about hospitality, and experienced. This Individual should also create a culture of diversity, inclusivity, collaboration, and teamwork. Advanced interpersonal skills to help navigate complex working relationships and a strategic mindset that allows to plan and develop talent management, training, and safety.

Essential Functions and Duties:

The Pastry Chef is responsible for planning/preparing pastry items and managing/directing the Pastry Sous and related parties for the execution of all pastry items at the restaurant.

What we are looking for:

• Create a positive work environment and continue to train staff and broaden skillsets.
• Supervisory responsibilities will include recruiting, interviewing, and hiring Pastry Cooks.
• Oversee pastry production for the restaurant ensuring quality from procurement, and production to execution daily to ensure successful, delicious, consistent, and profitable services.
• Hourly Labor Cost Control in partnership with Executive Chef
• Order products needed for production and maintained inventory with both food cost and product quality in mind.
• Food Cost control in partnership with Executive Chef
• Other job duties as assigned.
• Preparing operational reports and analyses setting forth progress, adverse trends and making appropriate recommendations

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient with Google Suite
• Working understanding of human resource principles, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

Education and Experience:

• Ability to work in a high-stress environment.
• An equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience is considered.
• At least 2 years of pastry chef experience is required.

Physical Requirements:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

MML Hospitality is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other prohibited basis. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

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