baker
Bakers make a wide range of breads, pastries, and other baked goods. They follow all the processes from receipt and storage of raw materials, preparation of raw materials for bread-making, measurement and mixing of ingredients into dough and proof. They tend ovens to bake products to an adequate temperature and time.
Also called: bakery specialist, bakery employee, bread baker
- 35
- essential skills
- 48
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 7512
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- confectioner15 skills in common
- industrial cook13 skills in common
- meat preparations operator11 skills in common
- prepared meat operator9 skills in common
Essential skills
35- administer ingredients in food production
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- apply flame handling regulations
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake goods
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- care for food aesthetic
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- crafting
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- ensure sanitation
- financial capability
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- knead food products
- maintain cutting equipment
- mark differences in colours
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- monitor machine operations
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- mould doughs
- operate mixing of food products
- operate weighing machine
- prepare bakery products
- select adequate ingredients
- set up machine controls
- store raw food materials
- tend bakery ovens
- work according to recipe
Optional skills
48- act reliably
- adapt efficient food processing practices
- analyse characteristics of food products at reception
- assist in the development of standard operating procedures in the food chain
- bake confections
- biotechnology
- control of expenses
- create new recipes
- disassemble equipment
- dispose food waste
- energy conservation
- enforce health and safety regulations for bread products
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production
- examine production samples
- execute chilling processes to food products
- exert quality control to processing food
- fermentation processes of food
- follow production schedule
- follow verbal instructions
- follow written instructions
- handle delivery of raw materials
- identify market niches
- identify the factors causing changes in food during storage
- improvise to occuring food processing situations
- keep inventory of goods in production
- label samples
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with managers
- lift heavy weights
- make artistic food creations
- manage challenging work conditions during food processing operations
- manage production changeovers
- manufacturing of confectionery
- mill operations
- milling machines
- monitor operations of cleaning machines
- monitor roasting
- negotiate price
- operate a heat treatment process
- perform services in a flexible manner
- processes of foods and beverages manufacturing
- provide training on quality management supervision
- recruit employees
- select adequate packaging for food products
- stand high temperatures
- tend packaging machines
- work in a food processing team
- work in an organised manner
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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