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Bread Baker and Miller

Mountain Oven is looking for an experienced baker to join our team. We’re focused on fresh-milled flour, naturally leavened bread, and grain forward products. We are a wholesale bakery, and host a pop-up once a week to open our space to the local community. We make a broad array of products in the bread department, alongside a full pastry department that produces viennoiserie and other baked goods.

Our bread program works exclusively with fresh-milled flour, and we mill a diverse array of whole grain flours and sifted bread flour. Bread bakers work to make pan-style breads baked in rack ovens, hearth loaves baked in a deck oven, and various additional products like bagels, challah, buns, and more. Production is focused on our central product line with weekly seasonally-driven specials. We run 4-5 bake days a week, baking 200-350 Kilos of dough on a given bake day. We are serious about our craft, but also like to keep things relaxed, enjoy ourselves throughout the work, and eat really great food.

We’re looking for a baker with experience working with sourdough/naturally leavened products and fresh-milled flour, and with experience milling or a desire to learn the craft. Candidates should be excited to work in a community-focused environment, with an emphasis on local, diverse grains, and high-level artisanship. Bakers have the opportunity to help craft our weekly specials and take initiative in developing new products or refining processes and formulas.

Bakers should expect to spend shifts as a mixer, shaper, and baker, as well as shifts milling flour, doing prep work and mise en place, and doing regular cleaning/maintenance of the bread and flour production spaces. Bakers have 4-day work weeks with 8-10 hour shifts. No shift starts before 4 AM, with shift starts staggered between 4 and 8 AM.

Interested candidates should be excited to live in a rural environment, in a small town on the western slope of the rocky mountains. Independent housing on land with other bakery staff/owners is available to support relocation, and can be negotiated as part of compensation.

Candidates should have:

• 2+ years professional bread production experience, emphasis on naturally leavened processes

• Experience working with fresh milled flour and whole grain flour, priority for those with experience milling

• Attention to detail and a focused and diligent work ethic in order to carry out techniques and recipes with precision and efficiency

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to lead a team of bakers and collaborate with the management team

Starting at $17.50 - $22 including tips and DOE. FT, approx. 30-40 hr/week, free bread and shift food/drink, bakery discount, and potential healthcare assistance with extended employment.

Baker Assist

Now hiring an aspiring baker to join our bread and pastry team - an opportunity to get kitchen experience, learn about the craft, work on a team, and help make beautiful baked goods. Shifts involve supporting your team through the process of scratch baking: mixing, shaping, baking, finishing pastries, doing dishes and cleaning work spaces, packaging and sorting bread and pastry for wholesale orders, and helping where needed as a supporting role on the team.

Here are some things we are looking for in an ideal candidate:

• Kitchen experience is appreciated but not required

• Attention to detail and focused diligent work ethic

• Communication skills and ability to take direction from department leads

• Ability to read and execute recipes with accuracy

• Ability to perform physical work, be on foot, and lift 50lbs 

• Desire to learn, work with your hands, and be a team player

Starting at $17.50 - $21 including tips and DOE. PT and FT openings; some 4am mornings and weekends required. Free bread, bakery discount, and potential healthcare assistance with extended employment.