Baker

**DO&CO - Baker - Hounslow**

, Permanent_
- Salary: £13.94 per hour_
- Day Shift: Early Shift 05:00 - 13:30 - Late Shift 13:00 - 21:30_

We’re passionate about our quality food and service and we want you to be too You’ll be working in a large, high volume and fast paced environment, so, bring your energetic approach to work alongside your hunger to develop your skills to produce our top-quality cuisine.

Whilst we value experience, the most important thing to us is your personality, adaptability, charm & team player spirit

We take pride in developing our own people to future success. What can start in London can take you across the globe throughout other exciting parts of our worldwide business.

**_What you’ll be doing_**
- Working hard to ensure that consistent, quality products are produced following all DO & CO standards
- Being a role model and producing bread according to the Head Baker/ Sous Chef schedule as described in the production schedule
- Instilling a culture of job pride and ownership and motivate the team to have the ability to adapt to stressful situations and deal with any emergencies or last-minute changes to production
- Planning production to the daily schedule and ensuring the exceptional DO & CO quality is maintained at its highest level with maximum efficiency in accordance with DO & CO regulations as set by the Quality Assurance team
- Coordinating, planning, and participating in the production, preparation, and in adherence to the recipes
- Checking daily inventory control and proceeding final ordering requests to the Purchasing team
- Forward, strategic thinking individual always looking to exceed targets and expectations of the unit whilst maintaining the collectiveness of the team and culture of DO & CO (OTIF performance is maintained)
- Monitoring wastage and ensuring processes are in place to keep food cost under control
- Understanding and ensuring operations adhere to all SOP’s and ALL relevant Critical
- Control Points, Health and Safety, Food safety and all legal requirements
- Constantly performing quality control checks to ensure specifications are met on raw materials and finished products
- Maintaining good working relationships with all DO & CO family members
- Defining systems of working to ensure quality of product, problems are resolved with solutions and continuous improvement initiatives are instigated
- Taking responsibility for all your actions, support your team, and celebrate successes as a family

**_What’s essential for us?_**
- Knowledge of bread mixing, ability to mold bread products with hands.
- Understanding bread proving and baking a variety of products to specified times and temperature
- Role model ability, leading a large team, ready to roll up your sleeves and do what is needed to give our customers the best service with a problem-solving mentality
- Confidence in taking the lead as at times you will be required to manage the department
- Passion for high-end bakery products, love for food and motivation to deliver exceptional service
- Well presented, professional individual with a can-do, positive attitude that indulges in team success
- The ability to be a positive change champion for DO & CO, identifying key impact areas and priorities and supporting change programmes and strategies in order to gain optimal results
- Exceptional attention to detail and data driven with the ability to influence different departments to suggest, implement and track solutions
- Build strong relationships with the team, mentoring and motivating, creating a team spirit, encouraging them to be at their best
- You are a clear and engaging communicator, strong written and verbal English, and will use a variety of methods to keep the team well informed
- Flexible in the way you think, making decisions efficiently and handling change to ensure everything we do is right for our customers and the DO & CO family
- Have a great understanding and working knowledge of Operations and be the expert in delivering practical actions for its improvement by taking a hands-on approach
- Previous experience in a similar role, or in a fast paced, high end, fresh food environment
- Strong numerical reasoning ability

**_What we offer_**
- £13.94 per hour
- Company canteen offering daily changing breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Great team focused environment
- Reward and recognition
- Free parking
- Personalised Birthday Cake
- We love to invest in our people. Our L&D team creates and delivers in-house training on areas such as leadership, communication and collaborative working and is available to all employees

**_Learn about DO&CO_**

DO & CO’s restaurant know-how, which has since been lifted to the skies, and the influence of international event catering have given the classic DO & CO airline product that incomparable character which makes it so unique. Thanks to an innovate service concept, high and uncompromising quality standards and an unmistakeable on-board prod