Experienced Baker / Pastry Baker

Sweet Thea Bakery – Main Street, Vancouver

Sweet Thea Bakery is looking for an experienced professional baker with strong pastry skills to join our production team at our Main Street bakery in Vancouver.

This is not an entry-level baking position. We are looking for someone who already has professional bakery or pastry production experience and can step into an established production environment.

Sweet Thea is a scratch bakery. We make our products ourselves, using real ingredients and traditional baking and pastry techniques. Our production includes artisan breads, croissants and laminated pastry, brioche, cakes, choux pastry, pastry creams, buttercreams and other bakery and pastry products.

We are willing to pay more for a highly qualified baker or pastry professional who brings substantial experience and can take on greater responsibility.

The Position

This is a full-time position, five days per week, with two consecutive days off.

Your regular responsibilities will include pastry preparation and morning production. You may require earlier starts on two mornings.

Typical responsibilities include

- Preparing, proofing and baking croissants and other laminated pastries
- Producing brioche and other enriched dough products
- Preparing pastry cream, buttercream, choux pastry, cakes, fillings and related components
- Following established recipes, production schedules and bakery systems
- Managing multiple products and production deadlines during a shift
- Baking and finishing products consistently to our quality standards




- Covering morning bread production two days per week
- Maintaining an organized, clean and food-safe workstation
- Working collaboratively with the rest of our baking and pastry team

The Experience We're Looking For Applicants should have several years of professional baking or pastry experience in a commercial bakery, pastry shop, restaurant pastry department or comparable professional production environment.

You should already be comfortable with several of the following:

- Croissant and laminated pastry production
- Yeasted and enriched doughs
- Bread production
- Pastry creams, custards and fillings
- Buttercreams and cake production
- Choux pastry
- Scaling recipes and production batches
- Commercial ovens, mixers and bakery equipment
- Working independently from production lists and established recipes

Culinary experience alone is not sufficient for this position. We are specifically looking for qualified baking and/or pastry experience. We are happy to train an experienced baker in our recipes and production systems, but we are not looking to teach someone the fundamentals of professional baking from scratch.

A current FOODSAFE certificate is required.

Schedule & Location





We are located at Main Street and East 32nd Avenue in Vancouver.

Because our shifts start early, please consider the commute carefully before applying. Preference will be given to qualified applicants who can reliably get to our Main Street bakery for early-morning shifts.

This is an in-person position. Applicants must already be legally entitled to work in Canada and available to work in Vancouver.

Compensation

$24–$27 per hour, depending on professional baking and pastry experience, plus participation in our staff tip pool.

We are looking for an experienced professional baker rather than an entry-level candidate, and compensation within the range will reflect the depth of your baking and pastry experience.

Full-time — 5 shifts per week

If you're an experienced baker or pastry professional who enjoys working with quality ingredients and wants to be part of a busy scratch bakery, we'd like to hear from you.

Pay: $24.00-$27.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Discounted or free food
- Store discount

Application question(s):
- Which of the following have you produced professionally? Croissants/laminated pastry; bread; brioche/enriched dough; choux pastry; pastry cream/custards; buttercream/cakes.
- Please briefly describe your most recent professional bakery or pastry position, including what products you personally produced.

Experience
- paid professional bakery or pastry production: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Experienced Baker / Pastry Baker (Vancouver)
🏢 Sweet Thea Bakery
📍 Vancouver