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Night Bakery Operations Team

Join Our Night Bakery Team

The Night Bakery Operations Team is the final mile of production at Seven Stars Bakery. Each night, this close-knit team works together to package, organize, and prepare our freshly baked breads and pastries for delivery to our retail cafés and wholesale customers.

This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys variety in their work and is willing to jump in wherever needed. Night Bakery Operations Team Members support multiple areas of the operation, including packaging, order fulfillment, cleaning, dishwashing, sanitation, and other responsibilities necessary to successfully complete the night’s work.

Our Night Bakery Team depends on one another. Attendance, reliability, accuracy, teamwork, and the ability to maintain a steady and efficient pace are essential performance expectations for this position.

 

What We’re Looking For

Our ideal Night Bakery Operations Team Member is someone who enjoys being part of a small, hardworking team and is comfortable moving between different responsibilities throughout the night.

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

  • Strong basic math and counting skills.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
  • Dependable attendance and punctuality.
  • Ability to maintain focus while performing repetitive and detail-oriented tasks.
  • Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced production environment.
  • Willingness to perform cleaning, sanitation, and dishwashing responsibilities as an essential part of the position.
  • Flexibility and willingness to move between different work assignments during a shift.
  • A team-focused attitude and willingness to assist coworkers when needed.
  • Ability to work independently once trained.
  • Willingness to learn and cross-train in multiple areas of Night Bakery Operations.
  • Availability to consistently work late-night and overnight shifts, including weekends and holidays as scheduled.

Seven Stars Bakery offers a competitive benefit package. This is a non-exempt hourly position, and pay rate is commensurate with experience.

Overnight Sanitation Team – Providence Production Bakery

Come join the Seven Stars Bakery team! 

The Sanitation Team at Seven Stars Bakery is responsible for completing deep cleaning tasks through the production facility. This includes detail cleaning of work areas, walls, floors, ceilings and drains by hand and using various sanitation cleaning tools. The Sanitation Team is responsible for maintaining our GMP standards of the Production Bakery. You need lots of energy, attention to detail, be fast-paced, able to work in a hot, humid environment for a 6 to 8-hour shift.

The Production Bakery operates 7 days a week / 24 hours a day. Work shifts will run from 6pm – 3am. Weekends and holidays are a must!

Job Qualifications

  • Reliable, hard-working, dedicated and thorough
  • Able to work independently as well as with a team
  • Able to work at a fast pace to keep up with the facility sanitation & cleaning schedule
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Able stand for up to 8 hours a day
  • Clean and organized
  • Must be able to lift up items and move equipment up to 50 lbs. without assistance
  • Reliable transportation to get to and from work, as public transportation is not available during all working hours
  • Bilingual – English & Spanish preferred

This is a non-exempt hourly position.  Pay rates start at $16.50/hour – based on experience, Weekly paydays, generous benefits package, product discounts, paid time off, and more. 

 

Cafe Customer Service Associate

Join the Seven Stars Bakery Retail Cafe Team

Thank you for your interest in joining the Seven Stars Bakery team! We are always excited to connect with individuals who share our passion for exceptional food, genuine hospitality, and creating memorable experiences for our customers.

While we do not currently have any open positions available, we encourage you to submit an application for the location(s) that interest you most. We maintain an active pool of applicants and, when opportunities become available, we begin our hiring process by reviewing applications already on file.

Applications remain active for six months from the date submitted and may be considered for future openings during that time.

We appreciate your interest in becoming part of our team and look forward to learning more about you.

Why is Seven Stars Bakery a great place to work?

At Seven Stars Bakery, we are all about quality – exceptional quality of our hand-crafted breads and pastries (and sandwiches, salads and coffees!) and unsurpassed quality of the customer service we deliver every day. Seven Stars Bakery is more than a bakery cafe – we are a community! 

When customers come through our doors, they get an instant “Ahhh!” feeling. Yes, the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and flaky croissants helps! But so does the Seven Stars vibe – welcoming, comfortable and vibrant. So – if you want to be a part of creating people’s “happy place” every day – joining our cafe team may be for you!!

All applicants must be able to work at least three (3) shifts per week including weekends and holidays.  In addition, you must be able to answer YES to the following:

  • Do you genuinely care about other people?
  • Do you enjoy working closely with other talented, dedicated people?
  • Do you hold yourself to high standards?
  • Are you a strong communicator with excellent people skills? 
  • Do you thrive in an active, quick-paced environment?
  • Do you have a can-do attitude and exceptional attention to detail?
  • Are you reliable, responsible and dependable? Being on time – or early – every day is REQUIRED!

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Greet and welcome each customer
  • Provide exceptional customer service using the Seven Stars Bakery Customer Service Standards
  • Help our customers make their bread, pastry and coffee choices
  • Brew coffee, prepare beverages for the barista and serve hot & iced drinks 
  • Maintain a clean cafe, including wiping tables, washing dishes and taking out the trash
  • Accept cash/credit/gift card payments
  • Pack online orders
  • Deliver curbside orders to our customers

This position pays $12.50/hour + tips for the first 9 months.  All hourly cafe employees will be eligible to become members of UFCW – Local 328 or pay fees covering collective bargaining costs (agency fee). Employees must complete a union authorization form within the first 30 days in order to continue employment.

Bread Mixer

We are hiring bread mixers (part-time and full-time) to work at our Production Bakery location in Providence, RI. This is a unique chance to work with naturally leavened breads made with house-milled grains! The ideal candidate possesses at least one year of bakery production experience. Must have a practical knowledge of bread production including mixing, scaling and laminating.  We are open 7 days a week so availability on weekend days and holidays is required. 

The mixer is a position that requires the ability to work independently, supplying the shaping team with mixed dough’s ready for shaping.  The mixer also maintains starters and mills our whole grains!  Strong time management, organizational and math skills as well as a good understanding of mixing tasks are required.

Job Qualifications:

  • Helps ensures consistency on all doughs by proper scaling and time and temperature control according to production standards
  • Helps maintains schedule by mixing dough efficiency and to dividers on time in order to maintain production flow
  • Maintains record of temperature of dough mixing, times and other required data
  • A basic understanding of safe food handling practices.  Food Safety Handler Certificate, preferred
  • The ability to stand 8 hours per shift
  • The ability to push/pull bins and racks weighing up to 100 lbs
  • The ability to lift up to 75 lbs. numerous times per day 
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Basic math skills
  • Ability to read and understand recipes in English

Seven Stars Bakery offers a competitive benefits package. This is a non-exempt hourly position, and the pay rate is commensurate with experience. 

 

AM Food Prep (Savory Team)

Do you want to make delicious sandwiches, salad and pastries? Do you want to work with a great team?

Seven Stars Bakery is hiring Part-Time Food Prep team members to work at our Production Bakery location in Providence, RI.  The shifts start as early as 4:00am and end as late as 2:30pm on weekdays, weekends, and holidays. Shift length is 4-8 hours each and weekly schedule can range from 16 – 30 hours. 

Growth opportunities to full-time and increased earnings are available with cross-training to other departments within the bakery. All potential applicants must have flexible availability and have reliable source of transportation to get to work on time. Please be advised public transportation may not be running during all of these schedule hours. 

We are open 7 days a week so availability on both weekend days and holidays is required!!

The Part-Time Prep position is responsible for preparing ingredients for and aiding with assembling our sandwiches, salads, quiche, and pastries. The food prep position requires the ability to work well independently and with a team. Strong time management, organizational and math skills are required as well as the ability to following prep lists and pars, date and rotate stock according to FIFO methods.  You will also be aiding in the making of pie crusts, scones, cookies, and scooping other pastry items.

Job Qualifications:

  • Work effectively with a team, and complying with company procedures and food safety policies
  • Prepare ingredients following recipes and guidelines
  • Advanced understanding of food preparation fundamentals
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Neat and organized
  • Energetic and self-motivated
  • Proficient knife skills
  • Ability to use a meat slicer
  • Ability to follow recipes
  • Knowledge of proper sanitation practices and safe food handling practices
  • Maintain a clean and orderly kitchen area by washing dishes, sanitizing surfaces, taking out trash, compost and recycling
  • Must be able to lift 50 lbs. without assistance multiple times
  • Kitchen production experience preferred
  • Basic mathematical skills
  • Able to read and understand English (for recipes and production sheets)
  • High School Diploma or GED, preferred

This is a non-exempt hourly position.  Pay rates start at $16.50/hour.