Production Kitchen Manager

2 months ago

Alexandria, Australia Black Star Pastry Full time

About Us

 

Black Star Pastry is thriving Having now settled into our new, purpose-built Production Kitchen in Alexandria, our team of masterful Pastry professionals is seeking a Production Kitchen Manager to take our production to the next level

 

Our company values encourage a work environment where authenticity and teamwork is respected, innovation and mastery are the cornerstones that set us apart, and pride in our achievements drives us every day.

 

Our success begins with a solid foundation of supporting each other, spread with a healthy layer of collaboration, and a generous sprinkling of having fun along the way.  

 

About The Role

 

Working in our HQ Production Kitchen, and collaborating heavily with our Executive Head Chef, the Production Kitchen Manager will oversee our production operations focussed on efficiency and scalability.

 

Key accountability of the role will be ensuring the production kitchen is operating at its most efficient . More specifically, the key areas will include:

 

Production Quality, Efficiency, and Cost Management
- Ensuring high quality and cost-effective production of agreed menu items through qualitative and data-driven analysis.
- Analyse existing operational processes to increase efficiency and scalability, and identify and implement cost-saving and efficiency improvement opportunities.
- Implement continuous improvement mechanisms to ensure cyclical review of our processes and procedures – ensuring they meet our needs.

 

Supply Chain & Inventory Management
- Collaborate with Executive Sous Chef to manage vendors to ensure consistent and reliable sourcing of ingredients, tools, equipment, etc.
- Optimise supply chain to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and forecast needs.
- Utilise systems to generate evidence driving better ordering to minimise waste and ensure sufficient inventory to meet production needs.

 

Production Supervision
- Lead, motivate and collaborate with leadership team to ensure operations, facilities and staff members comply with policies, procedures, regulations and food safety standards.
- Oversee kitchen operations to execute production of BSP menu to meet weekly order targets.
- Use leadership to retain and develop team members to enhance the overall capabilities of our workforce

 

About You

 

You will be curious about identifying efficiencies and bringing them to life. This will come from having a strong background in food production, supply chain management and team leadership.

 

You have been described as a dynamic leader with a proven track record in a fast-paced, high-volume food production landscape.

 

Problem-solving is your ‘jam’ and adapting to different environments to help you achieve in your role doesn’t frighten you.

 

You will enjoy passionate conversations with your colleagues, using these opportunities to demonstrate a proactive, results-driven approach to problem-solving.

 

The following qualities further describe the ideal candidate:

  • 3-5+ years in a kitchen, ideally as a Sous Chef level or above, with proven success in large-volume production kitchen environment;
  • Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to motivate and guide a diverse team;
  • Exceptional attention to detail with a focus on quality control that does not compromise efficiencies;
  • Pride in our brand and workplace, and in the understanding that your role has an impact on the success of our business;
  • Interest in maintaining a good level of understanding of the restaurant and hospitality industry and trends;
  • Curiosity to build, maintain and contribute toward healthy teamwork and collaborative working relationships;
  • Generally quite flexible and agile, able to be adapt to the changing needs of our business;
  • Effective communication skills described as clear, professional, authentic and concise.

Perks our People Love

  • Additional Annual Leave Day for your birthday – and a cake to celebrate your day 
  • Additional Well-being Day – you deserve to take some time for yourself. 
  • Free, confidential counselling support through an external provider.
  • Opportunities to progress to more senior roles – we believe in your potential. 
  • Great team culture – we are diverse, inclusive and believe our people are our biggest asset. 

Our Business 

 

Black Star Pastry opened its first boutique patisserie in Newtown in 2008 and since then we have grown into an institution with stores across Sydney - Newtown, Rosebery, Sydney CBD and Chatswood as well as pop-ups in Broadway and Burwood shopping centres We now have our purpose-built production kitchen based in Alexandria, helping us further diversify and grow

 

We are most famous for our Strawberry Watermelon Cake which continues to be a social media sensation, with the New York Times declaring it “the world’s most instagrammed cake.” 

Ready to join our galaxy of superstars? 

We’d love to learn more about you. APPLY NOW  

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