Pastry Cook

Join the team at The Hotel Hershey, a luxury resort best known for its refined elegance, signature services, and abundant amenities. The Hotel Hershey is situated high atop the town of Hershey and has 326 guest rooms, including 19 Villas with 98 luxury sleeping rooms, as well as 25,000 square feet of meeting and function space. The 1930's hotel is a Historic Hotel of America and a AAA Four-Diamond Award winner.

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company (HE&R) is an award-winning entertainment & hospitality organization with properties including:
Hersheypark, The Hotel Hershey, Hershey Lodge, Giant Center, Restaurants, and more. Our team members share a common goal of upholding the legacy of our founder, Milton S. Hershey, while striving to live by our company's Core Values:
Devoted to the Legacy, Selfless Spirit of Service, Team Focused, and Respectful of Others. Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is committed to cultivating diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workforce, marketplace, and community, and is proud to help fulfill the dream of our founder by providing value to Milton Hershey School.

As a Full-Time Team Member, you will enjoy sweet perks like FREE admission to Hersheypark, discounts, and more as soon as you receive your Employee ! Your total compensation consists not only of the wage that you are paid, but also includes Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage beginning the first day of the next month after you begin working, 401K Contribution, paid time off, and so much more!

Job Duties (Duties marked with an asterisk are essential functions of this job):

• Produce dessert and bakery products while following recipes and/or chef’s directions consistently and efficiently without supervision*

• Maintain clean and sanitary work environment and station on a daily basis*

• Maintain standards of good personal hygiene and proper uniform guidelines*

• Project a positive, self-motivated & professional attitude at all times*

• Prepare & maintain mise en place on station for the required number of covers*

• Keeps busy, consistently looking to help others as time allows

• Work safely with and around equipment with moving parts, knives, hot surfaces & steam*

• Consistently checks the quality of food items needed for daily mise en place, practicing proper rotation (FIFO) and prep levels*

• Able to handle multiple large amounts of prep levels with consistency and without sacrificing food quality*

• Maintain a high standard of food quality with demonstrated efficiency in the utilization of products to control food products*

• Able to control prep inventories, outlet requisitions and par levels*

• Demonstrate leadership skills within your work group or station partners

• Ability to communicate effectively as a team player with supervisors, employees & customers *

• Assist, train & direct Pastry Cook 3, Pastry Interns and Part-Time Pastry Cooks in daily tasks for profitable success of the department as a whole *

• Write personal prep lists with regard to food & labor costs*

• Able to manage the stations and the needs of the pastry shop in the absence of the Executive/Assistant Pastry Chef with a positive, supportive attitude*

Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older

• Minimum of 3 years high product scratch bakery experience in an upscale/casual restaurant environment

• Degree or Certificate in Baking and Pastry Arts; 2 years related work experience may be substituted for education.

• Must obtain Serv Safe certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to receive, understand & carry out instructions

• Superior baking and pastry skills

• Proficient pastry skills including icing, glazing and piping, torting/building of cakes and frames, individual dessert production & basic and advanced baking techniques

• Knowledge of bread structure, dough hydration and lamination process for bakery station

• Knowledge of European classic pastry styles and techniques

• Able to follow recipes or chef’s directions without supervision

• Demonstrate advanced ability in all food cookery techniques

• Demonstrate ability to lead, direct & train other employees and externs

• Working knowledge of kitchen equipment, good knife skills, and possess a full tool kit

• Working knowledge of weights and…