Baking Factory Worker

Overview

Operates machines and performs routine tasks to make bread, cakes and other baked products, and slices and wraps products.

Skills

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications outlined below. AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)

Tasks

• weighing, measuring, mixing, dissolving and boiling ingredients
• adding materials, such as spices and preservatives, to food and beverages
• operating heating, chilling, freezing, pasteurising, carbonating, sulphuring and desulphuring plant
• monitoring product quality before packaging by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
• operating machines to peel, core, slice, dice, pit and juice fruit and vegetables
• cleaning equipment, pumps, hoses, storage tanks, vessels and floors, and maintaining infestation control programs
• regulating speed of conveyors and crusher rollers, and adjusting tension of rollers to ensure total extraction of juice from sugar cane
• moving products from production lines into storage and shipping areas
• packaging and bottling products

Specialisations

• Biscuit Factory Worker
• Bread Room Hand

Related Occupations

• Brewery Worker
• Confectionery Maker
• Dairy Products Maker
• Food and Drink Factory Workers Nec
• Fruit and Vegetable Factory Worker
• Grain Mill Worker
• Sugar Mill Worker
• Winery Cellar Hand