£13.50–£15/hour · 27 hrs across 4 days · 3-month fixed term with a real route to permanent
Tired of making the same tray of the same thing every morning? This one's different. We're a family bakery in Stalybridge — long-established, recently taken over, and putting proper money and ambition behind our range. We're standing up a two-person product-development team, and we want a pastry chef to build it out alongside our development baker.
Half your week is creation. The other half keeps your hands in real production.
The creative half — Mondays & Thursdays, 10am–3:30pm (bakehouse nice and quiet):
- Build new lines with a proper finish — loaded doughnuts, cookies and traybakes, cheesecakes, croissant mash-ups, whatever's blowing up right now
- Pair with our development baker to take a rough idea all the way to a costed, repeatable product that actually sells
- Make it look the part — presentation counts as much as the eat
The production half — two mornings, 4am–12pm:
- Get stuck in with the bake team on our everyday range
- And make it better while you're there — prepping ahead to take the sting out of the morning rush, rethinking batches, cutting waste. We want someone who improves the line, not just staffs it
Is this you?
You're probably a chef de partie ready to step up, or an established pastry chef who can take a product from brief to finished-to-spec on your own — and who still enjoys a proper graft on a busy morning.
- Solid pastry/patisserie background with an eye for finish
- You genuinely know what's trending and shareable
- Dependable on a production morning — you can hold a station
The hours, no surprises:
Roughly 27 hours over 4 days, with every other weekend off. Two 10am development days (Mon & Thu) and two 4am starts. Wednesday's always in; the second early is usually Friday, but every other week it swaps to Saturday and you get that Friday back. Extra hours come up around seasonal peaks — always flagged in advance.
To throw your hat in:
Send your CV plus —
- 3–5 photos of your own finished bakes
- A link to any social or content you've made
- A line or two on something you took from idea to sale
No photos, no shortlist — we want to see what your hands can do. Make the cut and we'll bring you in for a paid trial bake.
In person, Stalybridge.
Pay: £13.50-£15.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
