Artisan Baker
- Pink Lane Bakery
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
- Aug 13, 2025
Full time
Advert / Media / Entertainment
Job Description
Company description
We're Newcastle's largest artisan bakery with three sites in the city. We bake from our production site in Gosforth where this role is based and we've been producing high quality artisan breads, viennoiserie, cakes and savouries in the city since 2012.
Job description
Come and be part of our skilled bread production team, we're looking for a 40 hour a week full time artisan baker.
This is a skilled role so you'll have some years of solid bread baking experience, a familiarity working with sourdough and be confident managing and loading a deck oven, scaling and moulding dough, and in an ideal world you'll have some familiarity with laminated doughs and vienoisserie production- although this is a skill we can teach.
We need you to be observant, fast paced and able to slot into our experienced team. Start times are generally between 2-4am with an earlier start at weekends. There's a supplementary pay for extra early shifts. Regular Saturday working is expected but we always close on a Sunday. We value work/life balance and keep shifts to 8 hours and aim to rota two consecutive days off weekly.
Pay is dependent on experience and we guarantee a rise in line with inflation every year. Our staff benefits include 6 weeks holiday, far more than statutory sick, maternity, paternity and bereavement and carers benefits as well as cycle to work scheme, flexible rotas and lots of training opportunities to upskill.
You'll fit with our work culture if you're curious and willing to learn, able to adapt and listen to others while getting on with the busy tasks of the production day. We work hard here but with the pride of making great products and we welcome ideas and innovation from anyone in the team.
Apply with a CV and detailed cover letter telling us about you, your skills and experience and why you want to work here. The cover letter is really important to understand you so don't skip that part, applications without it won't be considered .
Please note that sometimes we hire before the closing date of the application, so get your applications in early.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £27,040.00-£29,120.00 per year
Benefits:
Bereavement leave
Casual dress
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Discounted or free food
Employee discount
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Health & wellbeing programme
Sick pay
Store discount
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 23/08/2025
We're Newcastle's largest artisan bakery with three sites in the city. We bake from our production site in Gosforth where this role is based and we've been producing high quality artisan breads, viennoiserie, cakes and savouries in the city since 2012.
Job description
Come and be part of our skilled bread production team, we're looking for a 40 hour a week full time artisan baker.
This is a skilled role so you'll have some years of solid bread baking experience, a familiarity working with sourdough and be confident managing and loading a deck oven, scaling and moulding dough, and in an ideal world you'll have some familiarity with laminated doughs and vienoisserie production- although this is a skill we can teach.
We need you to be observant, fast paced and able to slot into our experienced team. Start times are generally between 2-4am with an earlier start at weekends. There's a supplementary pay for extra early shifts. Regular Saturday working is expected but we always close on a Sunday. We value work/life balance and keep shifts to 8 hours and aim to rota two consecutive days off weekly.
Pay is dependent on experience and we guarantee a rise in line with inflation every year. Our staff benefits include 6 weeks holiday, far more than statutory sick, maternity, paternity and bereavement and carers benefits as well as cycle to work scheme, flexible rotas and lots of training opportunities to upskill.
You'll fit with our work culture if you're curious and willing to learn, able to adapt and listen to others while getting on with the busy tasks of the production day. We work hard here but with the pride of making great products and we welcome ideas and innovation from anyone in the team.
Apply with a CV and detailed cover letter telling us about you, your skills and experience and why you want to work here. The cover letter is really important to understand you so don't skip that part, applications without it won't be considered .
Please note that sometimes we hire before the closing date of the application, so get your applications in early.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £27,040.00-£29,120.00 per year
Benefits:
Bereavement leave
Casual dress
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Discounted or free food
Employee discount
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Health & wellbeing programme
Sick pay
Store discount
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 23/08/2025
About Pink Lane Bakery