We're hiring: Baker

Weetons Baker

About Us

Weetons Leeds Road is a brand new retail and dining destination on the outskirts of Harrogate! Offering a stunning, newly created premium home & garden hall, delightful food hall including bakery, butchers and delicatessen, an established plant & garden centre, alongside our delectable restaurant and café.

Here at Weetons we pride ourselves on offering the best of locally sourced and on-site created produce in our food hall. At the heart of our business is our aim to consistently offer exceptional customer service and delightful products.

As such we are seeking a 'from scratch' skilled and highly personable Baker to join our food team in our on-site bakery, featured within our food hall. We offer a full-time permanent position, including some weekend work, with the opportunity to support our Head Baker in growing our bakery offer and put us on the map as a 'go to' bakery destination!

Duties

• Working in collaboration with our Head Baker to design, improve and innovate exceptional bakery goods across both sweet and savoury, ensuring all recipes and ingredients are fully logged and costed
• Ensuring commercial outputs are always achieved with regard to margin and product availability
• Ensuring every product satisfies food safety & quality standards and that ingredients and finished items are tested
• Maintaining standards of excellence and compliance with relevant policies and procedures within the department, including Allergen procedures and Health & Safety standards
• Managing & maintaining documentation on delivery, inventory and output levels
• Cleaning, sanitising and maintaining all used equipment so the department is ready for the next shift
• Being a team player and supporting colleagues across the business

Skills

• A retail facing mindset with excellent presentation skills both self and bakery environment
• Have a passion for all things Baked and the craft of patisserie
• Understand the importance of a brand aligned product offer
• Has a keen commercial understanding of new product developments and trends within the market and across our competitors and reacts accordingly
• A friendly, confident, positive and hardworking approach to work
• Attention to detail, especially with regard to product quality and standards
• Capable of meeting deadlines through effective time management
• Patient and resilient
• Basic computer and mathematical ability
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a wider team, working with Head Baker to build a plan for work schedules to ensure product availability
• Flexible in approach to adapt to changing needs from the customer
• To be a ‘people person’ who develops and maintains relationships with ease, building strong positive working relationships
• Trustworthy and reliable
• Great command of written and spoken English

Qualifications & Experience

• A minimum of 3 years retail bakery work experience
• Food & bakery training and qualifications
• Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety for Retail Certificate

Benefits

• Pension
• Staff discount across the site
• Free parking on site
• A competitive pay rate depending on age and experience.

As a rapidly expanding site with a fantastic sales trajectory, there are lots of opportunities for exceptional candidates. If you would like to be part of our team apply today!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £30,000.00 per year

• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free on-site parking
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Harrogate: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Commercial baking: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person