Cake Decorator / Pastry Cook

Stafford QLD

$38 per hour | 5 days | Monday to Friday | 7am to 3:30pm

The Plant Bakery is looking for an experienced Cake Decorator or Pastry Cook with confident piping skills to join our wholesale production kitchen in Stafford!

We produce plant based, gluten free cakes, slices and protein balls that are supplied to cafés, hotels, restaurants and specialty retailers across Australia.

This is a practical, hands on role focused on piping small individual cakes neatly, consistently and efficiently across larger production runs. It also includes general production work that is physically demanding.

Hours and pay

- $38 per hour
- Five days per week
- 7am to 3:30pm
- Monday to Friday only
- No afternoon, night or weekend shifts

What you’ll be doing

- Piping consistent cupcake style designs onto individual cakes
- Coring and filling cakes
- Adding final decorative touches
- Layering slabs
- Mixing and accurately weighing ingredients
- Lifting, pouring and carrying large batches, including 10L buckets and dessert slabs
- Packing finished products
- Completing production set up, cleaning and pack down tasks

About you

You will need:

- Professional cake decorating or pastry experience
- Confident and consistent piping skills and working efficiently across larger quantities
- Robust attention to detail
- A clean and organised approach to your work
- A positive, reliable and hardworking attitude
- The ability to regularly lift 14kg to 25kg and be on your feet for the full shift
- Ongoing Australian working rights

Your experience may come from a bakery, cake shop, café, hotel, restaurant or food production kitchen. Commercial experience is essential,



as this role requires both speed and consistency.

About our kitchen

We start at 7am, with a 15 minute morning break and a half hour lunch break around midday. We finish at 3:30pm and only operate Monday to Friday. You’ll be working in a new, modern production kitchen that’s clean, comfortable and well organised.

The Plant Bakery has been operating for ten years and has grown into a busy wholesale production kitchen. We work efficiently, maintain high standards and treat each other with kindness and respect.

If you enjoy hands on production work and take pride in producing neat, consistent products, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply with your résumé and a brief description of your professional cake piping experience.

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Pay: $38.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

- Do you have unrestricted working rights in Australia (i.e. you are not on a student or working holiday visa)?
- We operate 7am to 3:30pm , Monday to Friday. How many days are you available? (if you are only available for 3 days, this is no problem as we're also hiring a secondary role for 2 to 3 days.)
- Please tell us about your professional cake piping experience, including where you gained it, what you were piping and the quantities you typically produced.

Experience:

- professional cake piping experience in a commercial kitchen: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Cake Decorator / Pastry Cook (Stafford Heights)
🏢 The Plant Bakery
📍 Stafford Heights