Description
Prepares and bakes bread loaves and rolls.
Skill Level
3
Alternative Titles
NULL
Specializations
- Doughmaker
Skills Assessment Authority
Caveats
Caveat 17
TSS, ENS – The position relates to mass or standardised production (as opposed to specialist production), including the following:
(a) a position based in a franchise or factory;
(b) a position that:
(i) involves full or partial production of food product for distribution to another location; or
(ii) predominantly involves the use of pre prepared food product from another location.
Group: 3511 Bakers and Pastrycooks
Description
prepare and bake bread loaves and rolls, buns, cakes, biscuits and pastry goods.
Tasks
- 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
Skill Level
Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below.