Bakers
Bakers mix and bake ingredients to produce bread, rolls, cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, or other baked goods.
In bakers’ careers, bakers bake in production ovens or on grills by placing the dough in pans, moulds, or on sheets. They place items into hot ovens for baking and set oven temperatures.
Baker jobs require measuring or weighing flour or other ingredients to prepare batters and doughs, combining the measured ingredients in bowls of mixing or blending, mixing or cooking ingredients according to instructions by setting the time and speed controls for mixing machines or blending machines and checking products for quality. Bakers decorate baked goods, such as cakes or pastries, coordinate bakery deliveries, operate slicing or wrapping machines and develop new recipes for baked goods.
One can start a baker's career by obtaining a high school diploma with previous work-related skills, knowledge or experience to become a baker. The skills required are coordination, critical thinking, time management, judgement and decision making, monitoring and communications.
In addition, Baker jobs require knowledge of production and processing, customer and personal relations, food production, mathematics and administration and management.
Bakers’ jobs are found at retail or commercial bakeries, grocery stores or wholesale club stores, and restaurants. Baking offers excellent opportunities to keep rising above starting role. Skilled bakers switch jobs by experience to earn a better head baker's salary.
To be successful and advance in baker's jobs, one needs to have concern for others, social orientation, innovation, analytical thinking, and detail.
Qualifications
Every career requires an element of study and academic qualification, and there can be several study routes and pathways you can take. In following any academic pathway you will study subjects that contribute to the specialised knowledge required to achieve your career goals. These qualifications provide a future employer with the evidence that you have the desired knowledge, understanding and experience of their industry, so it’s important to consider the various types of qualifications available to you and to understand how they can boost your career and create opportunities for you.
- PGDM Culinary Arts
- M.Sc. Culinary Arts
- MHM Master of Hotel Management
- BHM Bachelor of Hotel Management
- Diploma Culinary Arts
Tasks
- Observe color of products being baked and adjust oven temperatures, humidity, or conveyor speeds accordingly.
- Set oven temperatures and place items into hot ovens for baking.
- Combine measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending, or cooking machinery.
- Measure or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare batters, doughs, fillings, or icings, using scales or graduated containers.
- Roll, knead, cut, or shape dough to form sweet rolls, pie crusts, tarts, cookies, or other products.
- Place dough in pans, molds, or on sheets and bake in production ovens or on grills.
- Check the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met.
- Adapt the quantity of ingredients to match the amount of items to be baked.
- Apply glazes, icings, or other toppings to baked goods, using spatulas or brushes.
- Check equipment to ensure that it meets health and safety regulations and perform maintenance or cleaning, as necessary.
Progression Routes
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