Java House, commonly referred to as ‘Nairobi Java’, opened its first store in 1999 at Adam’s Arcade in Nairobi. With the aim of introducing gourmet coffee drinking culture in Kenya, the first outlet was a coffee shop and later the brand evolved to an American diner style restaurant to its present-day status as a 3 -day part coffee-led, casual dining concept.

Java House is now one of the leading coffee brands in Africa and has grown to have outlets in 14 cities across 3 countries in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda). It has also birthed two sister brands Planet Yoghurt, a healthy, tasty and fun frozen yoghurt store and 360 Degrees Pizza, a casual dining restaurant.

“Welcome to Java. A home away from home”

Role overview

FUNCTION
Other

INDUSTRY
Food & Beverages

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
1-3 years

LOCATION
Nairobi

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

• • Bakery basic product knowledge
• • Must be conversant with basic hygiene standards in the industry
• • Attentive to detail in production
• • Certificate food production/ pastry and bakery course
• • Must have a basic form four level of education

Job description

•  Understands the recipes used in baking and their proportions.
• Can follow recipes keenly and precisely and can quickly interpret the recipe and quickly identify issues.
• Can interpret and measure ingredients correctly with minimal supervision.         
• Understands how a batter and dough mixer works and can operate it well.
• Ensures that all baked products are well sealed and packaged. 
• Understands how ingredients are stored, labelled, and packed   
• Understands the basic baking methods which include Creaming, Rub In, Hot milk, Blind Bake, All in one.
• Has the knowledge of baking most of the bakery items that include croissants pies, bread, cakes, muffins and cookies.
• Understand how to clean, assemble, and disassemble machine correctly such as food processor, scales, Planetary mixers, stick blender.  
• Can easily mould and scoop bakery items such as bread and choc chip cookies.   
• Able to fold the dough well into different shapes and sizes         
• Shows creativity and art in shaping of the dough.
• Demonstrates consistency of good quality products and speed.  
• Performs all relevant tasks in line with the trained standard operating procedures to minimize risk of harm to self, others or damage to property.
• Report all incident or accidents observed at the workplace to the Team Leader