BAKER MANUFACTURING

Job Definition:

• Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers make various kinds of bread, cakes and other flour products, as well as handmade chocolate and sugar confectionery.

Job Description:

• Mix and bake ingredients according to recipes to produce breads, pastries, and other baked goods. Goods are produced in large quantities for sale through establishments such as grocery stores. Generally, high volume production equipment is used

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Measures flour and other ingredients to prepare batters, dough, fillings, and icings, using scale and graduated containers.
• 2) Places dough in pans, molds, or on sheets, and bakes dough in oven or on grill.
• 3) Dumps ingredients into mixing-machine bowl or steam kettle to mix or cook ingredients according to specific instructions.
• 4) Decorates cakes.
• 5) Applies glace, icing, or other topping to baked goods, using spatula or brush.
• 6) Rolls, cuts, and shapes dough to form sweet rolls, pie crusts, tarts, cookies, and related products prior to baking.
• 7) Observes color of products being baked and adjusts oven temperature.
• 8) Develops new recipes for cakes and icings.

Activities:

•  Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

Abilities:

• 1) Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• 2) Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Knowledge

• Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.