Commerical Bakery Assistant

About the role

If you like early starts, hands-on work and being part of a small production team, this could be a great fit.

We’re looking for a Commercial Bakery Assistant to join our team at our Mt Roskill bakery, working a focused four-hour shift from 7:30am–11:30am, Monday to Friday.

You’ll be right in the middle of our pretzel production - rolling dough, hand-twisting pretzels, weighing ingredients, preparing batches and helping with general bakery production for our wholesale, retail and market customers.

It’s practical, physical work in a commercial bakery. You’ll be on your feet throughout the shift, working with flour and dough, lifting bags of ingredients and working alongside the team to keep production moving.

Previous bakery experience isn’t essential - full training is provided. We’re much more interested in finding someone who is reliable, willing to learn, comfortable with hands-on work and keen to become part of our small team.

Key responsibilities

• Rolling and portioning dough
• Hand-twisting soft pretzels
• Weighing and preparing ingredients for production
• Assisting with dough preparation and general production
• Lifting and handling flour bags and ingredients of up to 20kg
• Preparing workstations and ingredients for the team
• Packing and other production tasks as required
• Keeping work areas clean, organised and food-safe

About you

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Reliable and able to commit to Mon-Fri

• Available for initial training shifts

• Keen to learn and comfortable taking direction

• Happy with repetitive, hands-on work and comfortable being on their feet for the full shift

• Physically able to lift and handle flour bags and ingredients

• Careful and accurate when following weights, recipes and processes

• Comfortable working as part of a small, busy team

• Someone who takes pride in doing a job properly and pitching in where needed

(Bakery, kitchen or food production experience is a bonus, but definitely not a requirement.)

About us

Bloom’s Pretzels is a small artisan bakery hand-twisting soft pretzels for farmers markets, food stores, cafés and bars across Auckland and the North Island :)

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