Baker

Overview:

Learn to prepare and bake bread, cakes, cookies, pastries, pies and other baked goods. 

If you are creative, enjoy crafting detailed and delicious work with your hands and have a passion for baking, you will enjoy a career as a baker.

Depending on the size and nature of the bakery, you may be involved in:

• weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients, according to recipes or special customer instructions

• cutting and forming dough

• mixing and depositing batters

• preparing fillings

• using ovens to bake products

• frying doughnuts

• decorating baked goods

• cleaning bowls and pans after use

• preparing production schedules to determine the variety and quantity of goods to be produced

• purchasing, stocking and rotating ingredients and supplies

• operating production machinery

This is a non-compulsory trade – individuals can work in the trade without certification if the employer deems the individual to have the skills of a journeyperson. However, individuals who are working in the trade and learning the trade must become a registered apprentice.

Is this the right fit for me?

Students who have the following characteristics see greater success in the baking trade:

• good customer service and communication skills

• an eye for detail and a desire to do precise work

• manual dexterity

• a responsible attitude about ensuring that public health standards are met

• a commitment to safe work habits

Credentials:

Upon successfully completing the required working hours and technical training periods, graduates will be awarded journeyperson status by Alberta’s Apprenticeship and Industry Training. Baking is a Red Seal Endorsed trade – a recognizable standard that allows tradespeople to work across Canada.