pastry maker
Pastry makers prepare and bake cakes, cookies, croissants, pies and alike products according to recipes.
Also called: pastry cook, pastry production worker, pastry production operator
- 29
- essential skills
- 35
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 7512
- ISCO-08 group
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?24 skills in common
- pasta makerWhat changes?16 skills in common
- pasta operatorWhat changes?15 skills in common
- confectioner13 skills in common
- baking operator11 skills in common
- industrial cook11 skills in common
- meat preparations operator8 skills in common
- packaging and filling machine operator7 skills in common
Essential skills
29- administer ingredients in food production
- apply flame handling regulations
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake confections
- bake goods
- care for food aesthetic
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- crafting
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- knead food products
- maintain cutting equipment
- make artistic food creations
- manufacturing of confectionery
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- monitor machine operations
- monitor operations of cleaning machines
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- mould doughs
- operate mixing of food products
- operate weighing machine
- select adequate ingredients
- set up machine controls
- store raw food materials
- types of whisks
- work according to recipe
Optional skills
35- act reliably
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- analyse characteristics of food products at reception
- analyse trends in the food and beverage industries
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- create new recipes
- develop new food products
- dispose food waste
- execute chilling processes to food products
- exert quality control to processing food
- fermentation processes of food
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- follow production schedule
- follow verbal instructions
- follow written instructions
- food safety principles
- handle delivery of raw materials
- improvise to occuring food processing situations
- keep inventory of goods in production
- label samples
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with managers
- lift heavy weights
- mill operations
- milling machines
- negotiate improvement with suppliers
- negotiate terms with suppliers
- operate a heat treatment process
- perform chemical experiments
- perform services in a flexible manner
- processes of foods and beverages manufacturing
- secure goods
- tend bakery ovens
- work in a food processing team
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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