From baking operator to baker
16 of the 35 essential skills of a baker are already essential for a baking operator — about 46% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from baking operator in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 16
- skills carry over
- 19
- would be new
- 46%
- of the target job covered
- 35
- essential skills of a baker
What a baker does
Bakers make a wide range of breads, pastries, and other baked goods. They follow all the processes from receipt and storage of raw materials, preparation of raw materials for bread-making, measurement and mixing of ingredients into dough and proof. They tend ovens to bake products to an adequate temperature and time.
What carries over
16 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply flame handling regulations
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake goods
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- clean food and beverage machinery
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- ensure sanitation
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor machine operations
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- set up machine controls
- tend bakery ovens
What would be new
19 skillsEssential for a baker and not for a baking operator. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- administer ingredients in food production
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- care for food aesthetic
- check quality of products on the production line
- crafting
- financial capability
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- knead food products
- maintain cutting equipment
- mark differences in colours
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- mould doughs
- operate mixing of food products
- operate weighing machine
- prepare bakery products
- select adequate ingredients
- store raw food materials
- work according to recipe
Other moves from baking operator
2 roles- pasta operator15 skills in common
- malt kiln operator11 skills in common
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How far are you from being a baker?
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