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Pastry Chef, Cake Department
If, after reading the role description below, you'd like to apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to bakeryhiring+pc@galeta.co.uk explaining why this role and why now.
Galeta is on a mission to become the best-loved wholesale bakery in the UK.
We already supply more than 1,500 of the country's best cafés, restaurants, hotels and food businesses every day of the week. We're growing fast, investing in our systems and building a business capable of becoming much bigger.
We are now looking for a Pastry Chef who can help make our Cake Department a genuine centre of excellence.
About us
Galeta is one of London's leading wholesale bakery groups.
For more than 15 years, we have grown by making brilliant products, delivering them reliably and building lasting relationships with our customers. We bake for over 1,500 cafés, restaurants, hotels and food businesses across the UK from our bakeries in Hayes and Brixton, supported by our head office in Farringdon. Everything is handmade with natural ingredients, delivered fresh, leading us to ten Great Taste Awards and counting.
To be the best-loved bakery, everything we make needs to be made to the Galeta standard, every single time.
That is where you come in.
The role
You'll join our Cake Department, working alongside the Head of Cake to help make it a genuine centre of excellence.
Your primary job is to make our cake products, consistently, to the standard they are meant to be made to. Every recipe followed properly. Every process followed properly. Every single time.
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You will help the Head of Cake keep standards high across the section and take real ownership of the quality of what comes out of it. If something is not being made right, you are the kind of person who says so and helps get it fixed.
This is a hands-on, production kitchen role.
What you'll own
- Make our cake products consistently, to a high standard, day in day out
- Follow every recipe and process exactly as it is written, no shortcuts
- Support the Head of Cake in keeping standards high across the section
- Maintain good food hygiene practice at all times
- Spot when something is not being made or run right, and flag it so it gets fixed for good
- Take pride in every product you make, knowing it is going out to cafés and shops across the UK
What success looks like
Quickly, we would expect to see:
- Products made consistently and correctly, batch after batch
- Recipes and processes followed properly, every time, without cutting corners
- Food hygiene standards maintained at all times
- Problems spotted and flagged before they become bigger issues
- A section running to a high standard, helping the Head of Cake build it into a genuine centre of excellence
About you
You take real pride in what you make, and you love the idea of seeing something you made being sold in cafés and shops all over London.
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You bring a can-do attitude, and you are eager to learn and keen to grow.
You will probably have:
- Previous experience working in a pastry, kitchen or production kitchen environment
- A good understanding of food hygiene
- Clear English, spoken and written
Experience in a SALSA-accredited site would be useful, but it is not essential.
How you work
You are:
- Genuinely passionate about making amazing products you are proud of
- Careful and consistent, following recipe and process exactly
- Comfortable telling a colleague something isn't right, and helping get it fixed
- Eager to learn, with a can-do attitude
- Proud of your work and what it represents
The team
You will report to the Head of Cake and work closely with the wider Cake Department team.
This is a full-time, hands-on role based at our bakery in Hayes. You'll work 42.5 hours a week on a five-from-seven rota, with your days changing depending on the rota. It is not a hybrid or remote position.
What we offer
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- A route to grow within one of the fastest-growing bakeries in the UK, where product quality is number one priority
- See your products enjoyed in some of London's most recognised food destinations
- Help shape the future of a rapidly growing cake department
- Company pension
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