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 :
Working days: Monday to Friday. Working hours: 6.00am to 2.30pm. Time allocated for lunch: 30 minutes.

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