Pastry Chef
On
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Lead day-to-day pastry operations: Oversee the preparation, execution, and presentation of pastries and desserts while ensuring quality and efficiency
- Produce high-quality pastries: Prepare breads, rolls, breakfast pastries, and desserts following standard recipes for restaurants and banquets
- Enhance menu offerings: Create and implement new pastry recipes and seasonal menus to elevate the dining experience
- Ensure quality and presentation: Decorate pastries and cakes with creativity and precision, maintaining high presentation standards
- Manage product inventory: Maintain an adequate supply of prepared products and ensure proper storage for freshness and quality
- Inspire and develop the team: Supervise and support team members, monitor performance, provide coaching, and foster a positive and productive work environment
- Uphold regulatory standards: Maintain compliance with health, safety, sanitation, and alcohol awareness regulations, ensuring the highest standards of guest and team member wellbeing
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
About this role
At On, you'll lead the pastry kitchen for a hotel operation, managing both the technical and people sides of a busy pastry department. Your days will involve overseeing preparation and plating of breads, pastries, and desserts for restaurants and banquets, developing seasonal menus, and maintaining the inventory and storage systems that keep everything running smoothly. You'll also supervise and coach your team while ensuring the operation meets health, safety, and sanitation standards.
This role suits someone with solid pastry fundamentals and the ability to work at pace in a hotel environment. You need hands-on skill in executing recipes consistently and the creative eye to decorate and present pastries to high standards. Leadership experience is important—you'll be responsible for team performance, coaching, and fostering a productive kitchen culture.
Hilton positions this as part of a larger commitment to workplace culture and career development, emphasizing their values around hospitality, integrity, teamwork, and accountability. The role is full-time and based on-site in South Africa.
Typical pay for this role
$40,000
Typical range: $20,000 to $60,000
Pay for this role
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