Cafe jobs in Harrow on the Hill UB6

Galeta is on a mission to become the best-loved wholesale bakery in the UK.

We already supply more than 1,500 of the country's best cafés, restaurants, hotels and food businesses every day of the week. We're growing fast, investing in our systems and building a business capable of becoming much bigger.

We are now looking for a Pastry Chef who can help make our Cake Department a genuine centre of excellence.

About us

Galeta is one of London's leading wholesale bakery groups.

For more than 15 years, we have grown by making brilliant products, delivering them reliably and building lasting relationships with our customers. We bake for over 1,500 cafés, restaurants, hotels and food businesses across the UK from our bakeries in Hayes and Brixton, supported by our head office in Farringdon. Everything is handmade with natural ingredients, delivered fresh, leading us to ten Great Taste Awards and counting.

To be the best-loved bakery, everything we make needs to be made to the Galeta standard, every single time.

That is where you come in.

The role

You'll join our Cake Department, learning from our Head of Cake and our pastry chefs to help make it a genuine centre of excellence.

Your primary job is to make our cake products, consistently, to the standard they are meant to be made to. Every recipe followed properly. Every process followed properly. Every single time.

This is a hands-on, production kitchen role.

What you'll own

● Make our cake products consistently, to a high standard, day in day out

● Follow every recipe and process exactly as it is written, no shortcuts

● Support the Head of Cake and the Pastry Chef in keeping standards high across the section

● Maintain good food hygiene practice at all times

● Take pride in every product you make, knowing it is going out to cafés and shops across the UK

What success looks like

Quickly, we would expect to see:

● Products made consistently and correctly, batch after batch

● Recipes and processes followed properly, every time, without cutting corners

● Food hygiene standards maintained at all times

● Problems spotted and flagged before they become bigger issues

About you

You take real pride in what you make, and you love the idea of seeing something you made being sold in cafés and shops all over London.

You bring a can-do attitude, and you are eager to learn and keen to grow.

You will probably have:

● Some previous experience working in a pastry, kitchen or production kitchen environment

● A good understanding of food hygiene

● Clear English, spoken and written

Experience in a SALSA-accredited site would be useful, but it is not essential.

How you work

You are:

● Genuinely passionate about making amazing products you are proud of

● Careful and consistent, following recipe and process exactly

● Comfortable telling a colleague something isn't right, and helping get it fixed

● Eager to learn, with a can-do attitude

● Proud of your work and what it represents

The team

You will report to the Head of Cake and work closely with the wider Cake Department team.

This is a full-time, hands-on role based at our bakery in Hayes. You'll work 42.5 hours a week on a five-from-seven rota, with your days changing depending on the rota. It is not a hybrid or remote position.

What we offer

● A competitive hourly rate.

● A route to grow within one of the fastest-growing bakeries in the UK, where product quality is number one priority

● See your products enjoyed in some of London's most recognised food destinations

● Help shape the future of a rapidly growing cake department

● Company pension

If, after reading the role description below, you'd like to apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to bakeryhiring+pc@galeta.co.uk explaining why this role and why now.

Pay: £14.50 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hayes UB3 3BL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Pastry: 2 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person