L2 Plant Baker Apprenticeship

Your main responsibilities would include:

Mixing various doughs to specification, learning to see and feel what good looks like. Learning correct dough handling and moulding techniques. Checking product proof times and heights to deliver the same quality, every time. Setting oven temperatures according to product specification, and load/unload ovens. Checking products for quality and identify where a product is out of specification. Observing colour of products being baked and adjust oven temperatures/times accordingly. Checking equipment to ensure that it meets health and safety regulations, and perform maintenance or cleaning, as necessary. Measuring or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare doughs and toppings using scales and measuring equipment. Checking the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met. Setting machinery to apply pre-bake toppings to dough, within specification. Applying pre-bake toppings by hand. Preparing the dough raw materials, ready for mixing. Preparing and maintaining production records. Operating slicing or wrapping machines

Training:
Full training and mentorship from an outstanding, highly skilled team in an incredible environment across Geary’s bakery sites. Day release at Moulton college for your specialist training where you will learn the skills and knowledge to complete a level 2 plant baker qualification. Transport will be provided from your work site.

Training Outcome:

Lead Baker

Employer Description:

At Geary’s Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Working Hours :
Hours of work: Various shifts 3 x 12 hour shifts - 36 hours per week, plus 1 day release at college.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Problem solving skills,Number skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative