About the Role

We are looking for a Bakery & Pastry Chef to join our kitchen team and take ownership of the preparation, production, quality, and consistency of our bakery and pastry range.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on baking skills, an understanding of health-conscious and portion-controlled food, and the ability to work efficiently in a high-volume production kitchen.

You will be responsible for developing and executing products that are delicious, consistent, visually appealing, and aligned with our nutritional and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Prepare and produce a range of breads, pastries, desserts, baked goods, and healthy bakery products.
- Execute recipes accurately and maintain consistency in taste, texture, portion size, and presentation.
- Follow standardized recipes, production sheets, and kitchen SOPs.
- Develop and test new bakery and pastry products based on customer preferences and business requirements.
- Create health-conscious, high-protein, low-sugar, calorie-conscious, and portion-controlled products where required.
- Manage daily production according to order volumes and production schedules.
- Ensure proper weighing, mixing, proofing, baking, cooling, finishing, and storage of products.
- Maintain high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, and kitchen safety.
- Monitor ingredient quality and minimize wastage.
- Maintain proper stock levels of bakery ingredients and communicate requirements to the kitchen management team.
- Ensure correct labeling, storage, shelf-life, and FIFO practices.
- Coordinate with the wider kitchen team to ensure timely completion of production.
- Maintain equipment and ensure ovens, mixers,



refrigerators, and other bakery equipment are used correctly.
- Train and guide kitchen assistants or junior bakery staff when required.
- Maintain production records and report any quality or operational issues.

Requirements

- 25 years of experience in a professional bakery, pastry kitchen, hotel, restaurant, caf, cloud kitchen, or food production environment.
- Strong understanding of baking fundamentals and pastry techniques.
- Experience with breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, brownies, pastries, and desserts.
- Ability to accurately follow recipes and production specifications.
- Strong understanding of food safety and hygiene practices.
- Ability to work in a high-volume, deadline-driven kitchen.
- Good organizational and time-management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and consistency.
- Willingness to experiment and develop new products.
- Culinary / bakery / pastry certification is preferred but not mandatory if the candidate has robust practical experience.

Preferred Skills

Experience with:

- Healthy / clean-label baking
- High-protein desserts
- Low-sugar and reduced-calorie products
- Gluten-free / dairy-free products
- Eggless baking
- Portion-controlled desserts
- Meal-prep or subscription food production
- Recipe costing and yield management
- Product development and recipe standardization

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who is hands-on, disciplined, creative, and commercially minded. The right candidate should be comfortable working in a production-focused environment where consistency, efficiency, food quality, and cost control are as important as creativity.

📌 Bakery And Pastry Chef (Mumbai)
🏢 Baésic Fit
📍 Mumbai