Pastry Chef

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Pastry Chef to join our award-winning team at Coolangatta Airport. As a Pastry Chef, you will be responsible for preparing and cooking a variety of international hot and cold meals for our customer airlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a kitchen environment that promises flair, creativity, and consistency in the quality of menu items with taste and appearance.
• Be multi-skilled and lead teams in all areas of food production dependent on daily requirements.
• Ensure correct stock rotation is adhered to, ensuring minimal/no product wastage.
• Prioritize and manage workload to meet cold soak requirements and pickup times.
• Prepare complex and exotic dishes to specification.
• Provide feedback regarding shortfalls in production process to improve process and exceed customer service expectations.
• Supervise and train kitchen staff as required.
• Perform general and specialized duties.
• Perform activities working to passenger load requirements and current customer specification.
• Participate in customer menu development and presentation.
• Comply with hygiene, safety, quality, customer service, right first time, and performance standards.
• Comply with all dnata Food Safety requirements, including Personal Hygiene, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Food Handling and Storage Requirements, and Customer and Legislative HACCP requirements.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success in a similar role.
• Trade qualified Chef with at least 3 years' experience in a high volume food production environment.
• Previous experience in a commercial kitchen environment preferred but not essential.
• Advanced knowledge of HACCP / QSAI / Food Safety and OHS.
• Prior experience in a HALAL working environment and knowledge regarding segregation and separation of equipment.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work across a 7-day rotating roster.
• As you will be working in the Aviation Services industry, you will be required to obtain a clear National Police Check.

About Us:

We are Australia's largest and most admired inflight catering and retail partner, specializing in inflight catering and retail, food manufacturing, and airport lounge management. Our group of diverse brands enables us to deliver extensive service capabilities.

Chosen by many of the world's top airlines, we operate 16 facilities across 10 cities and employ over 4,000 people who help us produce over 64 million meals and service more than 250,000 flights each year.

Parent company dnata – part of the Emirates Group – is one of the world's largest air services providers, offering ground handling, cargo, travel, and inflight catering and retail services, ensuring the aviation industry operates smoothly and efficiently.