Company description

We are an award-winning artisan bakery specializing in medium-to-high volume, high-quality breakfast pastries such as hand rolled croissants, muffins, scones, cookies, tarts/pies and rustic and classic seasonal desserts, as well as hearth baked breads such as sourdoughs, baguettes, ciabatta, and whole grains.

All of our products are made fresh daily from scratch ingredients - including house-milled whole grains from our own stone mill. We source locally and regionally whenever possible. This includes primarily dairy, produce, and grains. We also offer espresso and lunch options in our café and participate in farmers markets.

We also proudly produce baked goods to a wide variety of customers through our wholesale program providing breads and pastries to top restaurants, cafes, and shops on the North Shore, Boston, and Southern New Hampshire.

Winner of Best of Boston in 2009 and 2012 as well as Best of North Shore every year since 2008.

We want to work with passionate hard-working people who can help us meet the needs of both our customer bases. Any team member who joins our business needs to be able to thrive in a team environment and want to hone their skills.

Job description

Come join our growing pastry department! This is an exciting time to be part of our production team as we reach new production levels. We have also recently incorporated a mill into production and now are able to produce our own fresh whole grain flours used in both our breads and some pastries.

GENERAL SCHEDULING:
We prioritize maintaining static, long-term schedules for everyone's sanity - no ever-changing weekly or monthly schedules! Full time production shifts here are five day a week, 8-hour schedule with occasional overtime in the busier season.

SHIFTS OFFERED:
Thursday-Monday
This is a combination night baking position and bakery prep work position.
It includes three nights of bake off in a 6pm-2am schedule and two days a week working in the late afternoon (2 pm-10 pm).
Subbing for co-workers is also expected to cover vacations or illness.
Working extra hours during holiday periods is also expected.
Closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Ideally, this position begins training ASAP

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Wages:
This position will start no lower than $19/hour and can start higher based on experience, interview, and try out. This wage per hour is calculated on a combination of a base hourly wage and administration wages that all employees benefit from in their hourly pay every pay check. Please visit this link for more background on this. More information will be provided in the interview as well. https://ajkingbakery.com/pages/administrative-fee

Paid Vacation:
All full time employees can accrue up to 40 hours of vacation pay after the first 6 months of employment and every year after that can accrue up to 80 hours.

Health Insurances:
After ninety days of employment new employees are eligible to participate in our health and dental insurance programs. We offer full health insurance plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield for individuals, couples, and families. The bakery contributes in part to these plans.

Sick Time:
The bakery provides 40 hours of sick time after thirty days of employment.

Our Mill:
We recently added a New American Stone Mill to our bakery production processes in late spring of 2022. This allows us to mill all our own organic whole grains in house, sourced regionally. This will create an even higher quality and more sustainable product than ever before. If you are excited to learn about milling and baking with whole grains, this is an amazing opportunity.

Shift Duties:

Night bake/Mix shift:
-Mixing and scooping muffins and other quick breads
-Bake off of muffins and quick breads as well as scones, cookies, and all our laminated/croissant based items.
-Production of laminated items are a large focus in our bakery.
-Proper proofing of all yeasted and laminated items.

Prep oriented shifts:
-High volume mixing, scooping, sheeting or cutting: cookies, brownies, scones.
-Food preparation related to fillings used in a variety of items from croissant to tarts and pies.
-Production of the butter packets that we make to produce all our laminated items. This includes proper mixing and forming.
-Assist in shaping laminated items (croissant products).
-Other food preparation duties as assigned base on the seasonality of our menu.
- Occasional simple piping/decorating
- Being ready to learn new recipes based on seasonal offerings
- Assembling and baking seasonal pies/tarts based on current menu.
- Potential pastry cream and curd production

Expected Equipment Usage:
-Heavy use of rack ovens and convection ovens.
-Use of mixers from kitchen aid on up to 80 qt Hobart Mixers.
- Use of multiple sheeters.

APPLICANT MUST:
*Have hands on professional cooking/food preparation experience. This is non-negotiable
*Be able to work in a fast paced environment with a sense of urgency and organization to complete all baking tasks on a schedule that allows for timely bake off of our products on a nightly basis. This is crucial to our wholesale deliveries being on time as well as our own retail cafe operations.
*Be able to multitask, prioritize, work independently, and follow a timeline to have items baked off on schedule
*Previous bakery experience is highly encouraged, but not necessarily disqualifying if professional cooking is your only prerequisite. The baking experience does not need to be artisan style. We can train the right applicant
NOTE: Home baking is amazing and wonderful but is NOT considered food service experience.
* Be excited and passionate about food.
* Be able to carry 50lbs, stand on their feet 8-10 hours in a potentially hot environment. Have endurance. Being a baker is a very physical job!
* Have hands and wrists capable of repetitive motions.
* Have a desire to work quickly.
* Be a friendly team player.
*Can consistently attend shifts and understands the concrete nature of the work we do here. Attendance is important.
* Be able to take constructive criticism and work to improve their craft.

If you're looking for somewhere to learn and develop the skills necessary to create a world-class artisan product, come join us in this exciting time!

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $19.00 - $21.00

Application instructions

Deadline

February 28, 2023