Production Pastry Chef

Job Purpose

Lead the daily high-volume pastry and bakery production of a central kitchen supplying multiple outlets (restaurants, cafés, hotels, retail, catering). Deliver consistent quality at scale, on schedule, within cost and full compliance with UAE / Dubai Municipality food safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

Production & planning

• Plan and execute daily/weekly production schedules based on outlet orders and forecasts.
• Produce the full pastry range at volume: viennoiserie, laminated dough, entremets, cakes, desserts, breads, plated components, frozen/chilled semi-finished products.
• Scale recipes accurately for batch production; maintain standardized recipes, gram-weight specs and yields.
• Operate and manage central-kitchen equipment: deck/rack/convection ovens, sheeters/laminators, planetary mixers, blast chillers/freezers, tempering machines, depositors.

Quality & consistency

• Guarantee identical product quality across every batch and every outlet.
• Enforce portioning, weight, finishing and packaging standards.
• Manage shelf life, blast-chilling, freezing, labelling and cold-chain integrity for distribution.

Food safety & compliance

• Apply and maintain HACCP-based food safety management; act as/support the Person In Charge (PIC) per Dubai Municipality Foodwatch requirements.
• Ensure temperature logs, traceability, allergen control, FIFO, hygiene and sanitation standards are fully respected.

Cost & inventory

• Control food cost, portion cost and waste; monitor yields and variance.
• Manage stock, ordering, supplier goods receiving and inventory rotation.

Team

• Supervise, train and schedule the pastry production team (chefs de partie, commis, helpers).
• Assign stations, monitor productivity and maintain discipline and morale.

R&D

• Develop and standardize new products for central production and roll-out to outlets.

Requirements

• 5+ years in pastry, with proven central kitchen / high-volume central production experience (essential).
• Strong background in batch production, recipe scaling and standardized-recipe systems.
• Culinary/pastry qualification.
• Valid Dubai Municipality PIC / food safety certification (or ability to obtain); HACCP knowledge essential.
• Solid understanding of cost control, yields and cold-chain / distribution logistics.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, high-output, temperature-controlled environment; physically fit; flexible on early/shift hours.
• UAE experience preferred.