Position: Pastry Cook
Position Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: $79,500 per annum plus superannuation
Location: Malvern, VIC 3144
About Us
Wricorp Pty Ltd t/a Millstone Patisserie is a café, patisserie, and catering company that serves seasonal-inspired breakfast and lunch, and French-inspired pastries and cakes. Over the past 5 years, Millstone has expanded into corporate and private catering, and we are now searching for a skilled, motivated, and passionate pastry cook to join our growing team.
Established in 2014 by Alice and Quentin, a French Australian duo driven by a love of food, family, and celebration, Millstone has become a local favorite for artisan pastries, classic café fare, and bespoke event catering. We’re looking for a skilled and motivated pastry cook to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a creative, close-knit environment where food is made from scratch, menus change with the seasons, and attention to detail is everything.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Check the cleanliness of equipment and operation of premises before production runs to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.
- Check the quality of raw materials and weigh ingredients accurately according to standardized recipes.
- Prepares and bakes buns, cakes, biscuits and pastry goods.
- Knead, mature, cut, mould, mix, and shape dough and pastry goods.
- Prepare specialized pastry fillings.
- Monitor oven temperatures and product appearance to determine precise baking times and conditions.
- Coordinate the forming, loading, baking, unloading, de-panning, and cooling of batches of bread, rolls, and pastry products.
- Glaze buns and pastries and decorate cakes with cream and icing.
- Operate kitchen machines which roll and mould dough and cut biscuits.
- Empty, clean, and grease baking trays, tins, and other cooking equipment.
- Store raw ingredients and finished pastry products in appropriate temperature-controlled environments, enforcing strict stock rotation.
- Monitor stock levels of baking ingredients, manage portion control, and minimize food waste to assist with kitchen cost control.
- Perform additional duties consistent with Pastry Cook’s role to support overall bakery and kitchen operations.
What We’re Looking for:
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 1 year of relevant experience as a pastry cook in a commercial bakery, patisserie, pastry shop, café or similar food-production environment.
- AQF Certificate IV or a higher relevant qualification.
Skills:
- Demonstrated experience preparing and baking a variety of pastries, cakes, biscuits and other baked products.
- Strong knowledge of pastry preparation, baking techniques, cake finishing and decoration.
- Experience with commercial pastry and baking equipment.
- Strong understanding of food safety, hygiene and workplace health and safety requirements.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to product quality.
- Ability to work efficiently in a busy production environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a production team.
What We Offer
- Full-time permanent employment
- Salary: $79,500 per annum + superannuation
- Opportunity to work in an established patisserie and bakery environment.
- Stable employment and the opportunity to further develop pastry and baking skills.
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Contact Details:
Wricorp Pty Ltd Trading As Millstone Patisserie Recruitment Team
