JW Marriott Pastry Cook

AHC Hospitality•Grand Rapids, MI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

AHC Hospitality represents a diverse array of hotels, restaurants, and resorts, providing exceptional experiences for guests. This role is a part-time position/internship requiring weekend availability. The pastry cook measures and mixes ingredients to create pastries, cuts and decorates pastries and tortes, and continuously works to create new designs and recipes. High standards are maintained to ensure the quality of products. The employee will be responsible for cleaning and sanitizing the shop, their work stations, and equipment.

Requirements

Previous Culinary experience
A solid display of safe handling knife skills.
Understanding orders clearly and basic culinary skills
Ability to work swiftly and efficiently
Good sense of taste and smell
Ability to perform any function around the bakeshop
Must be able to deliver high quality work
Knowledge about the different baking equipment and ingredients
Ability to remain balanced and work under emergency situations and pressure
Ability to work well in a group
Ability to stand in hot places all day long

Nice To Haves

Serve Safe certification is preferred
High school diploma or equivalent preferred
Related experience is preferred

Responsibilities

Measures and mixes ingredients such as flour, flavorings, and fruit to create pastries.
Cuts and decorates pastries and tortes with icing designs using various tools.
Continuously works to create new designs and recipes.
Maintains high standards to ensure the quality of products.
Responsible for cleaning and sanitizing the shop, work stations, and equipment.
Follows and fulfills duties given by senior chefs.
Keeps stations clean and well prepped to execute daily tasks.
Keeps the bakeshop clean and sanitized.
Fulfills duties on time so as not to disrupt guest experience.
Uses ingredients in the right proportion and is aware of the exact procedure of preparation of pastries.
Reads and understands event orders and fills out destination forms.
Follows hotel green policies.
Ensures trash/recyclables are taken out.
Follows AHC guest service standards.
Actively works with department staff, while following all departmental rules.
Completes all daily responsibilities/cleaning task lists.
Attends departmental meetings.
Follows AHC handbook policies and standard operating procedures.
Actively works, always looking for ways to assist guests and going above and beyond to provide guest service.
Ensures the quality and level of service that the General Manager, Guest Care Manager, Manager on Duty and Guests expect is excellent and follows company standards and policies.
Uses other AHC hotels and staff as resources.