Apprentice Baker & Confectioner

During your Apprenticeship, you'll dive into the full bakery process, learning skills such as:

 Weighing and preparing ingredients  Bread mixing, fermentation, and proving

You'll also gain experience operating our ovens, ensuring every batch of bread and rolls meets our high-quality standards.

Our confectionery team will teach you:

Creaming, piping, and coating Chocolate skills, working with our Chocolatiers

And finally, you’ll also learn how to produce our savoury products.

Training Outcome:
We are looking for candidates who view this role as a long-term opportunity in their career and who show us that they have the potential to be the Supervisors or Managers of the future. As a company we have a culture of developing internal talent, and so the ideal candidate will have the drive, ambition, and capability to continue their learning past this apprenticeship.

Employer Description:
Birds has been established since 1919, and is an East Midlands family-owned Baker, Butcher and Chocolatier, known for our high-quality products. Birds has over 700 employees, over 60 shops throughout the East Midlands and 1 bakery in Derby where all our products are made.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday, 6.00am to 2.30pm. 30 minutes allocated for lunch.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Presentation skills,Number skills,Team working,Initiative,Non judgemental,Patience,Physical fitness,Problem solving