Experienced Artisan Baker

Location: Park Royal, North West London Pay: £15–£17 per hour Job Type: Full-time or Part-time Hours: 3–6 days per week, typically afternoon/evening shifts from around 1:00pm

Our client is a busy artisan wholesale bakery supplying handmade breads, pastries and viennoiserie to restaurants, hotels and cafés across London.

We are looking for an experienced Artisan Baker with strong commercial experience in traditional, handmade baking.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 4 years' commercial artisan baking experience
• Strong experience producing sourdough, ciabatta, baguettes, brioche and yeasted breads
• Excellent hand scaling and hand shaping skills
• Experience managing fermentation and proving
• Commercial experience using deck and rack ovens
• Experience producing croissants, pain au chocolat, pain aux raisins and Danish pastries
• Able to manage the full baking process from mixing through to finished product
• Strong understanding of food safety, hygiene and allergens
• Reliable, hardworking and able to work efficiently in a busy production environment

Important: This is a fully handmade artisan bakery. The role is not suitable for candidates whose experience is primarily industrial, automated, supermarket/bake-off or pastry-only.

Candidates must also be physically able to safely load and unload all five decks of a commercial deck oven, including the top deck.

Benefits

• £15–£17 per hour
• Full-time or part-time opportunities
• 3–6 days per week
• Overtime and holiday cover available
• Uniform provided
• Staff sandwich and tea/coffee
• Employee discount
• Opportunity to develop within a growing artisan bakery

If you have strong commercial artisan baking experience and are looking for a hands-on role in a growing bakery, we would love to hear from you.