Baker

Guest Services, Inc. • Lakeland, FL

12d • $19 • Onsite

About The Position

The Baker prepares, mixes, and bakes ingredients to produce all baked food items for the unit. This role involves a variety of tasks related to food preparation, baking, and maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment. The position requires culinary knowledge, strong sanitation habits, and good customer service abilities. The company, Guest Services, is a hospitality management company founded in 1917, known for providing high-quality services across various client sites including national parks, hotels, and restaurants.

Requirements

• Culinary knowledge.
• Food Safety certified and strong sanitation habits.
• Strong customer service abilities; actively looks for ways to assist customers and coworkers.
• Ability to recognize when a problem has occurred and communicate it to management.
• Ability to stand for the entire work day.
• Withstanding temperature extremes in freezer, refrigerator walk-in and grill areas.
• Reading and writing work-related documents in English.
• Speech recognition and clarity, including the ability to understand the speech of customers and co-workers and the ability to speak clearly so that you can be understood by customers and co-workers in English.
• Constantly communicates and receives verbal communication with other employees in fast-paced kitchen.
• Physical presence at the job site is essential to perform job duties.

Nice To Haves

• High School Diploma/G.E.D. preferred.

Responsibilities

• Measure and mix ingredients to form dough or batter, according to recipe.
• Cut, peel, and prepare fruit for pie fillings.
• Bake and decorate cakes, pastries, breads, or other baked goods.
• Roll, cut, and shape dough to form rolls, pie crusts, tarts, cookies, and related baked products.
• Clean and inspect kitchen equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas in order to ensure cleanliness and functional operation.
• Operate food station, including performing station checklist, temperature log, counter meeting, and signage.
• Requisition food supplies, kitchen equipment, and appliances, based on estimates of future needs.
• Monitor menus and spending in order to ensure that meals are prepared economically.
• Maintain awareness of safety issues, and report them immediately to your manager.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED