Deputy Head of Pâtisserie Department

About the job

Café & Conditorei 1842 is located on Napfgasse in the heart of Zurich's Niederdorf. The name derives from the year of foundation, when the baker Johann Georg Eberle laid the foundation for today's café with confectionery by opening a sweet shop. Over four floors, our guests are treated to homemade cakes and pastries, delicious apple strudel, coffee and tea specialties, the popular hot drinking chocolate, a lovely breakfast and lunch menu, and much more. Additionally, the listed shop offers the finest chocolate products, seasonal treats, sweet gifts, and small meals.

Café 1842 with Confectionery belongs to the Arbeitskette Foundation and is an integration enterprise. Since 1994, the foundation has operated catering businesses in Zurich and Schlieren. As an operational foundation with around 100 professionals, we are committed to the social and professional integration of apprentices and employees with disabilities and offer around 165 adapted training and work places.

Your tasks

• Consistent and purposeful guidance of the specialist team, employees with disabilities, and apprentices
• Management of the bakery and production of the complete confectionery and pâtisserie range, doughs
  and desserts, as well as the snack offer in collaboration with the second deputy head of the pâtisserie department
• Planning and presentation of products for the shop and café
• Creation of special occasion cakes
• Responsibility for timely production of the entire range
• Responsibility for inventory management and purchasing
• Responsible for quality control of goods deliveries, storage
  and economical processing of products
• Responsible for implementing hygiene and quality standards according to all requirements,
  including cleaning and maintenance of work equipment, devices, and kitchen inventory
• Partial support in the kitchen

Your profile

• Successfully completed training as a confectioner-pastry chef with federal certificate (EFZ)
• Several years of professional experience as a confectioner-pastry chef EFZ
• Trainer qualification is an advantage
• Solid experience in the production of baked goods and sweets, as well as dessert creations
• Communicative, engaging, and open personality with a solution-oriented and networked way of thinking
• A high degree of personal responsibility, commitment, and flexibility
• Strong team spirit, excellent manners, and empathetic leadership qualities
• Good language skills in German and English, additional languages are an advantage
• Impeccable reputation

What you can look forward to

• You will find a motivated team with short decision-making paths
• A meaningful workplace where you can pass on your expertise to apprentices and employees with disabilities and support them
• Attractive working hours without compulsory overtime are a matter of course for us
• Support in professional and pedagogical tasks
• Further benefits can be found on our website under job vacancies