Speciality baker; Head baker.

Skilled bakers are responsible for making and presenting bread and baked goods, dealing with the production, composition and decoration of products on site at the bakery and at catering establishments, ensuring the application of current hygiene and food safety, environmental protection and occupational health and safety legislation.

• Supply and store primary and auxiliary materials, attending to product features.
• Design and modify technical manufacturing specifications in accordance with market demand.
• Regulate equipment and production systems in accordance with requirements of the production process.
• Elaborate bread, cake shop and dessert products, controlling operations according to the procedures manual.
• Elaborate ready-for-consumption, plated restaurant desserts, using culinary techniques.
• Put together, finish and present manufactured goods, applying decorative and innovative techniques.
• Verify the quality of elaborated products, carrying out basic controls and registering results.
• Package, ticket and pack manufactured goods, ensuring their entirety throughout the lifetime of distribution and sale.
• Store finished goods, carrying out control of existing stocks and verifying its shipment.
• Prepare and maintain equipment and facilities, guaranteeing the operation and hygiene in conditions of quality, security and efficiency.
• Fill out records, starting with incidences, using quality procedures.
• Guarantee the traceability and healthiness of manufactured goods applying food safety regulations.
• Publicise and promote manufactured goods, using marketing and sales techniques.
• Guarantee environmental protection with efficient use of resources and selective collection of waste residues.
• Comply with occupational risk prevention plans, in accordance with the standards is set out in the production process.
• Act with responsability and autonomy in the skill area, maintaining fluid relationships with work colleagues, taking into account the organisational structure of the company.
• Comply with production objectives, collaborating with work colleagues acting in accordance with principles of responsibility and tolerance.
• Solve problems and take individual decisions in accordance with defined established procedures within their field of responsibilities.
  Manage and oversee the bakery, carrying out all essential studies on product feasibility and production and sales planning.
  Purchase raw materials and manufacturing aids.
  Plan the tasks to be carried out and delegate them to the bakery staff.
  Manage the workforce.
• Provide ideas, research and work on:
  The introduction of new specialities (either by inventing them or using sources such as documents from industry magazines or by going to courses run by guild schools).
  The reintroduction of traditional specialities.
  Innovation in the use of flour (alternatives to wheat flour), or the introduction of ingredients (raisins, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.) in new specialities.

Regulated training and graduates

• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Food Industries - Intermediate Level: Bakery, pastry and confectionery
• Certificat de Professionalitat de la Família Indústries alimentàries: Panaderia i bolleria (Nivell 2)
• Certificat de Professionalitat de la Família Indústries alimentàries: Pastisseria i confiteria (Nivell 2)

Complementary training

Other specific skills

Analytical thought: Level 1

Initiative: Level 2

Concern for order and quality: Level 2

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Customer service

Direct and personal interaction with people and relating to the public are highly-motivating activities for individuals who have an interest in the field of customer service. A focus on people and on satisfying customers' needs is key in the occupations included in this field. These jobs entail the need to know suitable techniques for attending to the public and being able to give appropriate service that is tailored to their needs and expectations. Good examples are activities which offer assistance and guidance during functions, trips or at facilities, and those which provide advice in relation to products and services.

Management

The organisation, administration and control of a company or entity are the main interests of people related to the management field. Activities included in this field of interest vary from effective resource management, feasibility analyses and solving business problems to the development of skills and fostering of motivation in relation to human resources. Knowledge regarding specific techniques of strategic administration and business management are required to carry out these activities.

Logistics

The planning, organisation, control and carrying out of logistics and administrative tasks are the focus of people who work in the field of logistics. Activities in the field of logistics include the organisation and planning of supply, storage, production and distribution systems, taking inventories, controlling stock and estimating production, as well as the organisation and/or carrying out of the administrative tasks necessary for the implementation of these activities. Knowledge of organisation, control and management techniques is essential for carrying out these activities.

Mechanical handling

People related to the field of mechanical handling are interested in the assembly, maintenance, repair and use of machines, tools and installations. Some good examples of professional activities in the field of mechanical handling are adjusting and configuring machines, reviewing technical equipment to detect incidents in their operation, handling machinery in production processes and driving specialised vehicles.

Food plant operator

Administrative Officer

Food Production Worker in Ready Meal Industry

Controller

Shipping line manager

• Work hours

  Full working day, working mainly night shifts, with varying hours, as well as weekends, with days off during the week.

• Salary

  Salary range: between 15.117 and 20.904 euros annum gross. Median: 17.776 euros annum gross.
  
  Source: Report "Observatory of Jobs and Salaries of the Labour Market. Barcelona Activa", elaborated by ICSA Grupo. April 2015.

• Other features

  These professionals usually work at night and rotating weekend shifts.

• Professional category

  Specialist staff

• Human resources and equipment

  A basic requirement is to have premises to move in to and set up shop, so as to already have the necessary machinery in place. Another option is to fit out a site, which you may lease or own, and then purchase the machinery. Regardless of the option chosen, you must have the relevant permits and an operating licence. You will usually also have to hire staff in order to carry out the daily production and/or serve customers.

• Initial investments

  You will require a management system (software and hardware), a till, a means of communication (telephone) and the necessary machinery for production. Optional: a vehicle for deliveries.