Bakery - Assistant Pastry Chef

Valley View Casino & Hotel, 16300 Nyemii Pass Rd, Valley Center, California, United States of America

Posted Monday, December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM

WHO WE ARE:

Be a member of the winning team at Valley View Casino & Hotel – named one of San Diego's Best Places To Work by the San Diego Business Journal. Valley View is where fun and your future will come together – join our team for a fun and exciting environment with amazing benefits that focus on you, your family and helping you reach your lifetime goals!

Deeply rooted in the Valley Center community, we, the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, have a rich local history. With traditions founded upon “good neighbor” values, our Tribe has been a part of this community for many generations. Valley View Casino & Hotel reflects our proud heritage of enterprise and opportunity; it is a place for our friends and neighbors.

At Valley View Casino & Hotel our team members are the foundation of who we are and what we do.

The compassion, encouragement and level of experience that you will be exposed to will put you on a career path full of opportunities for advancement.

Description of the Position:

Assist in supervising the overall bakery operation in assigned kitchen, including directing team members in their daily job functions and in their appropriate assigned areas. Assist in the supervision and work of the pastry operation to include: the preparation and production of all pastry, bread and dessert items ensuring the efficiency of the kitchen operation on a scheduled shift is completed in accordance with Company specifications and standards.

Carries out responsibilities with minimal direction and exercises good judgment to achieve desired results.

Primary Duties, Responsibilities, and Tasks:

• All team members are obligated to support and uphold the Valley View Casino & Hotel’s Standards of Excellence as outlined in the Team Member Guide to Success.
• Maintain positive guest relations at all times, resolving guest complaints and ensuring guest satisfaction. Greet guests in a courteous and caring manner using personalized service.
• Oversee and implement new items that will be made for all Food and Beverage outlets.
• Perform daily inventory and ordering to par and business levels. Specific monitoring and proper ordering, rotation and utilization of all high-cost perishable items.
• Respond and assist with all internal and external guest requests through email, phone calls and accommodating any last minute requests for amenities and cake orders.
• Serves as a key communication link between the Executive Pastry Chef and the bakery team, ensuring that production goals, standards, and expectations are clearly understood and executed.
• Ensure that all recipes are current and updated to reflect menus in the various outlets. Ensure that all recipes are organized and efficiently arranged in the proper books for team members to use.
• Help direct and actively participate with team members to ensure all a la carte dessert orders and amenity orders are received and directed to correct station. Monitor all finished products for quality and quantity by checking all finished set functions at the end of the day. Properly label items and ensure all items are present. Ensure all products are attractively garnished, fresh and appealing to the eye.
• Ensure that all items are correctly labeled and delivered to the correct area or restaurants in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all food items are prepared and served according to the Pastry Chef’s standards, specifications, and recipes. Assist in preparation and maintenance by checking production lists for correctness by cross referencing with Eos.
• Coordinate daily with the Stewarding department to ensure that the area is being properly cleaned. Communicate with Stewards as to cleaning specific areas of the bakery that need to be done each day such as exhaust hoods, ovens, proofers, fan guards, walk-in refrigerators, interior and exterior of ovens, freezer floors, refrigerator curtains, door seals and oven racks and upright racks.
• Ensure proper storage of all food, and rotation, labeling and dating of all products. Ensure that all items are…