Pastry Chef

• Fixed Term - 12 months
• Full time
• 40 hours per week
• Monday - Friday | working hours typically from 7 am–3 pm
• €17.10 per hour
• Meals during shift | parking on site | full uniform provided
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Pastry Chef

Dublin 2 - Full time - Fixed Term (12 months)

A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.

At Sodexo, you'll belong in a team and thrive in service. We know that our talented chefs are the key to delivering exceptional service and tasteful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

Build a name with big-brand businesses and corporate clients, delivering high-quality nutritious meals for boardroom lunches, executive events, and daily workplace dining. This role calls for a chef who can blend maintaining excellent standards, while working efficiently in a fast-paced, trend-setting, client-focused environment.

What you'll do

• Prepare and bake a wide range of pastries, cakes, breads, desserts, fillings, and decorative elements to a consistently high standard.
• Take full ownership of the pastry section while working closely with the wider kitchen team.
• Follow recipes and production methods accurately to maintain quality and consistency during high-volume service.
• Manage daily prep, special orders, and event production efficiently and calmly under pressure.
• Monitor baking times, temperatures, stock levels, and ingredient freshness to ensure excellent product quality.
• Decorate and finish products to presentation standards with strong attention to detail.
• Maintain a clean, organised, and food-safe working environment at all times.
• Support smooth kitchen operations by ensuring pastry items are prepared and ready for peak service periods.

What you'll bring

• 2–5 years’ experience as a Pastry Chef or Baker, ideally within a high-volume restaurant, hotel, or bakery environment.
• Strong pastry skills, particularly in bread making, cake production, desserts, and presentation techniques.
• The ability to produce pastries and breads to the highest level with consistency and efficiency.
• Confidence working independently while also contributing positively as part of a collaborative team.
• Excellent organisation, time management, and multitasking skills in a fast-paced kitchen.
• The ability to stay calm and focused during busy service periods and tight deadlines.
• A proactive approach to maintaining cleanliness, food safety, and section organisation.
• Flexibility to work early morning shifts, with working hours typically from 7am–3pm.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications

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