Food Production Assistant

4 months ago


West End, Australia South Brisbane Wholesale Cakes Full time

Do you have experience handling food? Happy and able to lift heavy items throughout the day to support our pastry team? Experience in general kitchen cleaning and keeping a clean work area?

We would love to hear from you.

We're a wholesale plant based dessert business based in West End (just 10 minutes from the CBD). We produce a range of vegan slices and cakes for hospitality venues around Australia in large quantities.

We're looking for production assistants to support our pastry team. You would be responsible for bulk production, using equipment and machines, the heavy lifting (15kg) and general cleaning.

**Hours: 7am to 3:30pm ish Monday to Friday, NO weekend work | Location: West End | Must be available a minimum of 3 days.**

**Your main responsibilities will include**:

- Performing the heavy lifting to support the pastry team i.e. transferring baked trays into the trolleys/freezer (10kg to 12kg each), refilling ingredients (15kg boxes).
- Using large robot coupe mixers
- Operating other machinery to produce bulk production of brownies, slices, cakes etc.
- Preparing ingredients, measuring etc
- Pouring and levelling layers of dessert slices
- Dishes and cleaning
- Beginning of day set up and end of day pack down
- Adhering to HACCP protocols

**What's really important to us**:

- Fit and strong, able to comfortably lift 10kg to 15kg repetitively throughout the day (our baking trays weigh 15kg when filled with product and you will regularly be lifting and moving them). **Part of your main role is to perform the heavier tasks for our pastry team, please keep this in mind if applying. This role is suited to strong individuals.**:

- A minimum of two years working within a food production environment, this could be a bakery, hotel, restaurant, wholesale food production etc. It's important to us that you have a sound knowledge of food hygiene practices.
- An enthusiastic, upbeat and hard working attitude (we take this REALLY seriously, our team are positive and friendly, anyone who's a glass half empty kind of person, grunts as their form of communication or doesn't like taking direction - please don't apply).
- Ability to multi-task and show initiative, and most importantly capable to work unsupervised.
- Excellent and clear communication
- Reliable with a willingness to learn

The rest we can teach you.

**The benefits of this role**:

- You will enjoy a friendly, efficient team environment with full training provided.
- No late nights or weekend work, you'll always be home for dinner and your weekends are your own.
- Considerate and flexible management.
- Centrally located in West End

We would love to hear from you if you feel you have the personal attributes and skills required to fulfil this role and join our team.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Casual
Part-time hours: 30-40 per week

**Salary**: From $29.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

COVID-19 considerations:
As a wholesaler this is not a customer facing role, you'll be working within a small production team.

Application Question(s):

- How many days are you hoping to work? We are open Monday to Friday, 7am to 3:30pm
- Please read the job description carefully. You will be responsible for the heavy lifting through the day (10 to 15kg repetitively) for example 15 x trays of brownies (15kg) need to be placed onto a trolley one by one and then loaded into freezer racks one by one, this would be your responsibility. Are you fit, able and comfortable with this?
- What is your availability? Do you have any study or visa requirements that prevent you from working 5 days per week (this is ok).

**Experience**:

- Working with food (kitchen hand, process work etc): 2 years (required)

Work Location: In person



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