Overview
Baking Factory Workers operate machines and perform routine tasks to make bread, cakes and other baked products, and to slice and wrap products.
Day-to-day
- weighs, measures, mixes, dissolves and boils ingredients
- adds materials, such as spices and preservatives, to food and beverages
- operates heating and chilling plant
- monitors product quality before packaging, by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
- operates machines to process food
- cleans equipment, pumps, hoses, storage tanks, vessels and floors, and maintains infestation control programmes
- moves products from production lines into storage and shipping areas
- packages products.
Considerations
- Physically demanding
To become a Baking Factory Worker
You can work as a Baking Factory Worker without formal qualifications, however, a certificate I or II in baking and/or food processing may be useful.