Bakery Team Lead

Family Express Corporation•Valparaiso, IN

6d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for efficiently producing large quantities of bakery products daily, including panning up dough, shaping/scoring dough, proofing, baking, topping, sheeting, and frying donuts, pastries, and breads, all while upholding the Family Express brand image. The Bakery Team Lead also manages the start-up and ongoing daily operations of the bakery, ensuring quality assurance, compliance with regulations, and dedication to process improvement. This includes preparing reports, maintaining knowledge of industry trends, coaching and developing staff, optimizing formulations and production schedules to minimize costs, controlling waste, maintaining a safe work environment, implementing preventive maintenance for equipment, and ensuring timely product delivery to stores. The role also involves training other bakers, maintaining cleanliness and organization in baker's areas, and ensuring sanitation and food safety procedures are followed. The position may also require performing Bakery Administrative Assistant duties and special projects as assigned.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age
Must have reliable transportation
Digital literacy
Excellent communication skills
Professionally interact with fellow team members
Situational awareness
Strong customer orientation
Commitment to quality
Act with integrity, use sound judgment and ability to adapt
Possess a sense of urgency
Ability to learn and perform any distribution center job function
Ability to effectively operate all equipment
Participate in performance reviews
Strong team player
Commitment to company mission and values
Basic mathematical & computer proficiency
Adaptability; flexibility and receptive to change
Effective decision making based on sound judgment and reasoning
Integrity and accountability
Innovation and creativity
Adaptive and flexible
Teamwork and leadership
Self-confidence and humility
Professionalism and work ethic

Nice To Haves

Bakery and/or food service related experience

Responsibilities

Develop, administer, implement and maintain all day-to-day operation policies and procedures of the bakery
Maintain all quality assurance programs and ensure compliance with any and all federal, state and local regulatory agencies
Prepare reports, with corroborating documentation, statistics and forecasts on bakery operations
Dedication to process improvement
Provide appropriate reporting of risk-related information to Bakery Management
Maintain knowledge of current developments and trends in food bakery production
Administer and direct all aspects of the bakery including coaching, training and development of culturally compatible staff
Assist formulations and production schedules which maximize customer appeal while minimizing ingredient and labor costs
Control product and raw material waste
Maintain a safe work environment
Implement and maintain preventive maintenance schedules for all equipment
Ensure production schedule accommodates stores need for product delivered on a timely basis
Train other bakers when needed
Ensure that baker’s areas are kept clean and organized
Ensure that sanitation and food safety procedures are implemented and followed at all times
Ability to perform Bakery Administrative Assistant essential functions when necessary
Special projects as assigned