About Us

Located in West Town Chicago, Aya Pastry celebrates the best of seasonal ingredients, with products crafted with precision and love. Aya Pastry offers a creative take on signature breads along with celebratory cakes, whimsical sweets, and breakfast pastries.  The expansive bakery produces baked goods in large volume for our wholesale and retail customers.

Aya won Eater’s National Pastry Chef of the Year in 2016, was nominated in 2017 for James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef, and won the Chicago Tribune’s Pastry Chef of the Year in 2018.  The bakery recently received the "Best New Baked Good Empire" title for the 2021 Eater Awards.  Come on by to join our amazing team!

Responsibilities

• Open the bakery 5 days a week at 3am. 
• Manage a team of bread bakers for retail and wholesale production.
• Oversee and be a part of daily production of all bread orders; including but not limited to mixing, shaping, and baking of doughs and viennoiseries.
• Assist in kitchen organization, equipment maintenance and cleanliness.
• Have an understanding and control of the bakery's bread production schedule by checking pars, inventory, and adjusting recipes using google sheets.
• Order ingredients from vendors
• Work under the Head Bread Baker to ensure quality and to create new menu items.
• Communicate with other management members and staff.

Requirements 

• Ability to lift 50 pounds
• Must be extremely punctual 
• 2 years or more experience in bread production.
• Knowledge of lamination, bread mixing, shaping, and baking and previous use of bakery equipment.
• Must maintain a high level of cleanliness and be aware of all food safety standards (must have Illinois' food handler's certificate).
• Must have a flexible schedule including the ability to work on holidays.
• A great attitude, an eagerness to learn, and passion for bread baking.