Pastry Chef – Katrina Bakery LTD

Job Description

Katrina Bakery is one of the largest and fastest-growing bakery production brands, producing high-quality pastry and bakery items across the United Arab Emirates. The workforce of Katrina Bakery Ltd. is around 150 employees, including baristas, pastry chefs, bakery production staff, and store and delivery staff. The reason that Katrina has taken a major place in the UAE café market is its affordable prices, food quality, and customer satisfaction. As the business grows, Katrina Products is looking for an experienced pastry chef to join its family and bring more energy. If you’re interested in a UAE-trusted company that loves helping you build your career, Katrina Bakery is a great place, highly recommended. TripAdvisor reports.

Job position details:

Working as a pastry chef at Katrina Bakery Ltd, you will carry out kitchen operations. That’s the heart of the operation. Creating, preparing, and presenting a wide range of bakery and pastry products with high-quality company standards will be your responsibilities. You will have a chance to work with the Katrina branch head chef and kitchen support team members to ensure a smooth operation in line with our brand.

The successful candidate is a person who takes responsibility and works with minimal supervision under pressure while maintaining safety and quality kitchen standards. This is not just a regular pastry chef position. Katrinaa Bakery Ltd loves those who give creativity to bakery products and make viral bakery products for the UAE customer base. Katrina Bakery Products are growing day by day, so the creativity won’t stop.

Major Kitchen Responsibilities

• Prepare bakery production according to the Katrina Bakery menu items, which include cheesecakes and other types of cakes, cookies, loaf breads, all types of croissants, tarts, and other bakery products that match Katrina Bakery’s quality and standards by following the recipes.
• Create viral pastry and bakery products and seasonal concepts created by assistants under the head chef and executive chefs with the approval of management.
• Thoroughly maintain the product quality process and make sure the bakery products come out of the oven and leave the bakery shop with the brand standard, taste, quality, and presentation.
• Measure the ingredients for portions accurately and prepare doughs, batters, sauces, creams, and mixtures with the balancing of ingredient measurements and taste balance.
• Make sure all the preparations are completed, including the pastry section mise en place, ahead of service to run the kitchen operation smoothly.
• Well-sound knowledge of bakery equipment, handling dough sheeters, ovens, mixers, and other kitchen equipment operated in a safe manner.
• Managing stock levels for the pastry section ingredients and flagging shortfalls to the purchasing members and minimising wastage on day-to-day operations.
• Assist the kitchen team whenever he
• P is required, especially during peak hours, and mentor them to run a positive collaborative operation.
• Strictly follow the kitchen procedure of the monitoring checklists, temperatures, baking times, and appearance of products and meet the Katrina Bakery standards.
• Stay updated with viral pastry and bakery trends, techniques, and creative innovations for management for product development consideration.

Company Expectations:

Katrina Bakery LTD is looking for someone who can bring passion, creativity, a hunger to learn, and technical skills to contribute to the company’s brand growth.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of minimum professional pastry or bakery chef job role experience in a hotel, restaurant, ant or cafe environment with sound culinary arts experience in the GCC.
• Extensive working experience in Viennoiserie production, confectionery, chocolate artwork, and patisserie.
• Hands-on experience in a high-volume bulk bakery production atmosphere is an additional advantage.
• Strong crafting, innovating, and creative pastry technical skills.
• Food safety certificate with a good understanding of HACCP regulations and food hygiene, plus food safety principles.
• Take responsibility to work individually whenever required during busy hours.
• Good command of English writing and reading, plus additional languages, are a plus but not mandatory.
• Perfect time management skills to accomplish the daily challenging tasks simultaneously during peak hours.
• Hunger and the passion for bakery products, technology, techniques, and viral trend experiments.
• Professionally positive, work-orientated attitude with a strong focus under high-volume pressure, and able to handle it.
• Maintain the quality, taste, flavour, and presentation consistently without degrading according to Katrina Bakery standards.

How does looks alike GCC countries Pastry Chef Role:

In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai is known as a tourism hub in the UAE. It’s an opportunity pool for every role. Working in the UAE as a pastry chef means a lot for the CV. It adds valuable experience in luxury hotels/restaurants, career growth, employment rewards, etc. The most beneficial thing is the salary in the UAE. It’s totally yours because there’s no tax on it. Plus, most well-reputed companies provide all the benefits that make the employee comfortable. Katrina Bakery Ltd is one of them. They don’t stay in one spot; every single day, their expansion is higher. In the bakery industry across the UAE, Katrina stands in the top 10. It just doesn’t give you a job; it opens doors to grow and level up your career life in an international-standard F&B environment. Katrina has numerous branches across the UAE. And that’s a visible testimony to how much faster they’ve grown. This opportunity does not often come. If you feel that you are a perfect match for this role, read the information below on applying and apply now.

Applying Procedure

Please read the information below carefully and follow up with the instructions given below. Before you apply to Katrina Bakery Ltd, fulfil the following key points.

• Recent updates: a structured bakery industry resume, not more than two pages, with a recent photograph that mentions relevant bakery experience and job responsibilities.
• A cover letter briefly summarises why this position suits you and what you can bring to the table.
• Prepare your documents: educational background, certificates, and other advanced course certificates, including your original passport (valid min. 6 months).
• Be ready for a trial interview once you’re done with the 1st interview with the hiring manager.