Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Work setting
- Pub
- Restaurant
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Prepare dough for pies, bread, rolls and sweet goods, batters for muffins, cookies and cakes and icings and frostings according to recipes or special customer orders
- Requisition or order materials, equipment and supplies
- Bake mixed dough and batters
- Supervise baking personnel and kitchen staff
- Frost and decorate cakes and baked goods
- Draw up production schedules
- Train staff
- Ensure that the quality of products meets established standards
- Operate machinery
- Oversee sales and merchandising of baked goods
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Food specialties
- Breads and rolls
- Desserts and pastries
- Wedding and specialty cakes
- Donuts and muffins
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience