Job Description

About BETA5 Chocolates

BETA5 Chocolates is a design-forward chocolate studio that crafts modern chocolates and confections inspired by art, architecture, and imagination. Recognized as one of North America’s Top Ten Chocolatiers, we blend flavour innovation with clean design and warm hospitality to deliver an experience that feels playful, luxurious, and unmistakably BETA5.

We’re seeking a skilled, collaborative, and creative Head Chocolatier to guide our kitchen team, scale our craft, and bring thoughtful structure to our production processes, without compromising beauty, flavour, or joy.

Position Summary

This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced chocolatier who thrives in a fast-paced, design-focused kitchen. You’ll oversee the day-to-day production of our bonbons, bars, enrobed confections, and custom pieces while mentoring a small team. You’ll bring a calm, thoughtful presence to the kitchen as a leader who balances creative ambition with operational excellence.

Success in this role means more than technical mastery: it means helping us tell stories through chocolate, leading with humility, and delivering memorable experiences at every touchpoint.

What You’ll Do

Production Leadership

• Plan, execute, and oversee chocolate production workflows, balancing artistic intent with technical precision.
• Ensure all confections meet BETA5’s standards of visual beauty, flavour integrity, and consistency.
• Translate seasonal plans and creative concepts into efficient, scalable production schedules.

Team Mentorship

• Lead and support a team of chocolatiers and assistants (3–6 people), fostering a positive, inclusive kitchen culture.
• Provide hands-on training, feedback, and encouragement to help every team member grow in skill and confidence.
• Model a collaborative, ego-free approach where excellence is a shared pursuit.

Quality & Operations

• Maintain and continuously improve SOPs for tempering, moulding, filling, decorating, and finishing.
• Oversee inventory planning and ordering for ingredients, packaging, and production tools.
• Uphold food safety, cleanliness, and traceability standards at all times.

Creative Collaboration

• Partner with our leadership team on seasonal launches, collaborations, and limited-edition collections.
• Support the creative translation of ideas into repeatable, beautiful products ready for retail, hospitality, and corporate clients.
• Treat every chocolate as a piece of edible art—crafted with intention, delivered with care.

What You Bring

Required

• 3+ years of hands-on chocolate production experience (tempering, ganache, moulding, decoration).
• 1+ year in a supervisory or team lead role within a culinary or pastry production environment.
• Deep respect for process, polish, and storytelling through food.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; calm under pressure and solutions-oriented.
• A collaborative spirit—comfortable leading, teaching, learning, and doing.

Preferred

• Experience working in a luxury or design-driven food environment.
• Familiarity with digital production planning tools or kitchen management systems.
• Food Safe certification (or willingness to obtain immediately).

What Success Looks Like

You’ll thrive at BETA5 if you:

• Take genuine pride in every detail—from the shine on a bonbon to the calm in a morning prep meeting.
• See the kitchen as a creative studio: part workshop, part gallery, part community.
• Enjoy supporting others as much as leading them.
• Believe that structure and artistry are not opposites—they’re partners in building something beautiful.

Why Join BETA5?

• Lead the chocolate program at one of Canada’s most recognized creative chocolatiers.
• Work with a team that values thoughtfulness, craft, and kindness as much as output.
• Competitive salary and extended health benefits.
• A production space that doubles as a playground for ideas.

Competitive wages + health savings plan

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