confectioner
Confectioners make a varied range of cakes, candies and other confectionery items for industrial purposes or for direct selling.
Also called: confectionary products worker, confectionary worker, cakes and sweets maker, cake maker
- 33
- essential skills
- 26
- 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.
- bakerWhat changes?15 skills in common
- pastry makerWhat changes?13 skills in common
- chocolatierWhat changes?12 skills in common
- baking operator11 skills in common
- industrial cook10 skills in common
- pasta maker9 skills in common
- pasta operator8 skills in common
- candy machine operator6 skills in common
Essential skills
33- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake confections
- bake goods
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- care for food aesthetic
- chemical aspects of chocolates
- chemical aspects of sugar
- coat food products
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- create new recipes
- enforce health and safety regulations for bread products
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- exert quality control to processing food
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- knead food products
- maintain food specifications
- manufacturing of confectionery
- monitor coating specifications
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- mould chocolate
- nutrients of confectionery
- operate a heat treatment process
- operate mixing of food products
- prepare bakery products
- produce confectionery from chocolate
- select adequate ingredients
- temper chocolate
- tend confectionery manufacturing equipment
- work according to recipe
Optional skills
26- act reliably
- administer ingredients in food production
- analyse trends in the food and beverage industries
- apply extruding techniques
- apply flame handling regulations
- assess cocoa bean quality
- bake pastry for special events
- control of expenses
- decorate pastry for special events
- dispose food waste
- examine production samples
- identify market niches
- improvise to occuring food processing situations
- label samples
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with managers
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- make artistic food creations
- negotiate improvement with suppliers
- negotiate terms with suppliers
- operate automated process control
- perform chemical experiments
- perform services in a flexible manner
- prepare regional sweet dishes
- tend bakery ovens
- work independently in service of a food production process
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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