Job title: Production Baker
Reports to: Head Baker & Apprenticeship Training Lead
Work Location: King's Cross Pancras Square, London NC1 — Luminary Bakery's new café & production kitchen, opening [TBC]
Hours: Part-time, weekend-focused, Saturday–Sunday anywhere from 06:00-15:00. Start time required to align with the café's opening hours.
Salary: £14.00+ per hour
Employed by: Luminary Bakery Ltd
About Luminary Bakery
Luminary Bakery is an award-winning social enterprise bakery on a mission to empower women through training and employment, featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Tatler and more. Alongside our Café and Bakery production sites, we're opening a brand new café and kitchen in King's Cross — a small, fast-moving site expected to see very high footfall from day one, located between Coal Drops Yard and King's Cross station.
Overview
We're looking for an experienced Production Baker to cover weekend production at our brand new King's Cross site.
Weekends at this site are expected to be busy, so this isn't a light-touch role — you'll be running full production and holding the standard on your own, with the same level of independence and judgement we'd expect from our full-time baker. We need someone who's done this before and can walk in and run the shift with minimal hand-holding.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily Production: Bake and finish the full non-pastry production range on your working days — focaccia and other breads, scones, cookies, traybakes and cakes — to Luminary's standard, working to a tight schedule so the café case is fully stocked for opening.
- Cake Assembly & Decoration: Bake, fill, crumb-coat and simply decorate cakes intended for slicing and selling in the café — a clean, consistent, ready-to-sell finish, not bespoke celebration-cake artistry.
- Sandwich & Lunch Production Support: Support the café team with sandwich, salad and lunch-item prep and assembly during the busy midday service, helping the kitchen keep pace through the lunch rush.
- Shift Leadership: Act as the go-to person on shift for the wider kitchen team on your working days — coordinating tasks, resolving day-to-day issues, and keeping production moving without needing to escalate every decision.
- Quality Control & Consistency: Maintain Luminary's quality, bake and finish standards across every product, batch after batch, even at high volume and under time pressure.
- Production Planning: Help plan and pace weekend production against likely demand at a site expected to sell out most days — flagging shortfalls early and adjusting batch sizes accordingly.
- Stock & Ingredient Management: Monitor day-to-day ingredient stock for production on your shift, flag replenishment needs early, and minimise waste through accurate batch planning.
- Health & Safety Compliance: Uphold food hygiene, health and safety standards throughout a fast-paced working day, keeping the kitchen clean and organised.
- Collaboration: Work closely with the wider Luminary team so the café's full offering — pastry, bakery and lunch — runs as one smooth operation, even on days when you're the most senior person on the production floor.
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience: Minimum 3 years' professional baking experience, ideally in a production or artisan bakery, covering breads, scones, cakes, cookies and traybakes.
- Cake Skills: Confident, clean cake decorating skills for simple slice-and-sell cakes — crumb coats, smooth finishes, simple piping/decoration — rather than elaborate celebration-cake artistry.
- Independence: Comfortable working independently and being the senior person on the floor for the shift, without on-site backup from a manager for every decision.
- Pace: Proven ability to work quickly, cleanly and accurately under real time pressure, in a genuinely fast-paced kitchen.
- Organisation: Well organised, able to manage multiple priorities and a tight production schedule at once.
- Physical Requirements: Physically able to lift and handle items weighing up to 50lbs (approx 23kg).
- Right to Work: Proof of the right to work in the UK.
- Availability: Reliably available for weekend shifts.
Desirable
- Previous experience supervising or leading a shift or small team.
- Experience baking to supply a high-footfall, grab-and-go café.
- Background in, or genuine alignment with, social enterprise.
Benefits
- Daily Perks: Free barista coffee daily and 50% off all Luminary food & cold drinks.
- Discounts: 20% discount on online purchases (celebration cakes & merchandise), plus discounts for friends and family.
- Professional Development: Regular training opportunities and involvement in press coverage.
Become part of a team dedicated to creating memorable, delicious experiences while making a positive impact — and help shape our brand new King's Cross site from day one.