confectioner
Code 7512.3
The confectioner (repostera) prepares desserts and confectionery for daily production or special orders. Use this Job Dictionary profile to sweet kitchen/pastry trade. It includes the dictionary skills map to build the ad and the assessment.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- chemical aspects of sugar
- chemical aspects of chocolates
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- nutrients of confectionery
Skills and competences
- knead food products
- apply HACCP
- apply GMP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- create new recipes
- care for food aesthetic
- bake confections
- prepare bakery products
- manufacturing of confectionery
- produce confectionery from chocolate
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- enforce health and safety regulations for bread products
- bake goods
- operate a heat treatment process
- tend confectionery manufacturing equipment
- maintain food specifications
- operate mixing of food products
- mould chocolate
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- coat food products
- work according to recipe
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- select adequate ingredients
- temper chocolate
- monitor coating specifications
Transversal competences
- exert quality control to processing food
Download the role profile
We'll send you a profile ready to paste into your job ad: purpose, essential and optional skills, and what to assess. One email, no signup.
What to assess for this role
Assess hygiene, visual finish and recipe adherence.
See psychometric assessmentLo que más nos preguntan
Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a confectioner do?
- Makes desserts, cakes or sweets ready for sale or service.
- Confectioner vs pastry cook?
- They overlap; confectionery often stresses cakes/sweets, pastry fine doughs.
- What to measure when hiring?
- A product test and order handling.
Similar roles
Other roles in the same group, useful when the one you need is not an exact fit.
Need to find this profile?
We source, screen and assess candidates for this kind of role, with a replacement guarantee. Fast process and a flat fee per role, no percentage of the salary.
In Obrii App the profile becomes a job descriptor, a CV screener and an interview scorecard. Try it free for 14 days, no credit card.
Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences