Bakers and Pastrycooks

Bakers and Pastrycooks prepare and bake bread loaves and rolls, buns, cakes, biscuits and pastry goods.

What the job involves

• Checking the cleanliness of equipment and operation of premises before production runs to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations

• Checking the quality of raw materials and weighing ingredients

• Kneading, maturing, cutting, moulding, mixing and shaping dough and pastry goods

• Preparing pastry fillings

• Monitoring oven temperatures and product appearance to determine baking times

• Coordinating the forming, loading, baking, unloading, de-panning and cooling of batches of bread, rolls and pastry products

• Glazing buns and pastries, and decorating cakes with cream and icing

• Operating machines which roll and mould dough and cut biscuits

• Emptying, cleaning and greasing baking trays, tins and other cooking equipment