# Chef Instructor, Pastry (Sur La Table)

**Company**: Sur La Table
**Location**: Carmel
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Chef Instructor, Pastry at Sur La Table, you are the in-store expert for baking and pastry arts. You deliver exceptional service by sharing specialised knowledge in pastry techniques and baking fundamentals. Key responsibilities include:

- Representing Sur La Table's brand and culture by creating memorable, educational experiences

- Delivering exceptional in-store culinary experiences focused on pastry and baking classes

- Communicating technical concepts and advanced pastry skills effectively

- Maintaining expertise by staying current on products and engaging in available training

- Driving sales by upholding kitchen standards and promoting retail items

- Meeting or exceeding culinary program goals and key performance indicators

- Assisting in setting up and breaking down classes, cleaning and sanitising dishes and equipment, and restocking kitchen supplies

- Ensuring compliance with food safety standards, local health codes, and sanitation regulations

Physical requirements include:

- Ability to communicate verbally and work cooperatively with associates and customers

- Ability to remain standing for up to 4 hours at a time

- Ability to move about the store, direct class participants, and retrieve merchandise

- Capability to accurately perceive and differentiate variations in intensity or quality of flavours or odours

- Ability to lift and/or move merchandise weighing up to 50 lbs

- Available to work between 12 and 16 hours per week with a flexible schedule

Qualifications and experience:

- Must be 21 years of age or older

- A degree in culinary arts is preferred; however, candidates with extensive culinary experience and demonstrated technical proficiency will be considered

- 1-2 years of kitchen operations experience

- Valid Food Manager Certification

- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

## Skills

### Required
- pastry techniques
- baking fundamentals
- customer service
- communication
- food safety

### Nice to have
- culinary arts degree
- kitchen operations experience
- Food Manager Certification

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