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.