Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet required production volumes
- Confirm work area and work practices meet food safety and workplace health and safety requirements
- Select and wear personal protective equipment according to safety requirements
- Select plant baking equipment, and load and position materials, ingredients and products to meet production requirements
- Mix bread plant dough
- Operate bread plant divider
- Check condition and operation of dividing plates to prepare for operation
- Check bread plant hopper and divider plates are oiled for use
- Adjust bread plant divider settings for dough weight
- Load dough into hopper and operate bread plant divider to divide dough
- Measure dough weights to confirm divided dough meets weight specifications
- Monitor bread plant dividing process to identify faults and rectify
- Operate bread plant rounder moulder
- Check condition and operation of bread plant rounder moulder to prepare for operation
- Adjust bread plant rounder moulder settings for dough weight
- Use bread plant rounder moulder to mould dough
- Check dough tightness and smoothness of dough to identify faults and rectify
- Check dough positioning for depositing into intermediate prover pockets to identify faults and rectify
- Monitor bread plant moulding process to identify faults and rectify
- Operate bread plant intermediate prover
- Check condition, rotation and operation of bread plant intermediate prover to prepare for operation
- Adjust bread plant intermediate prover settings to match speed of production
- Check dough pockets to identify faults and rectify
- Dust as required for product type
- Monitor bread plant intermediate proving process to identify faults and rectify
- Operate bread plant final moulder
- Check condition and operation of bread plant final moulder to prepare for operation
- Adjust bread plant final moulder settings for dough volume
- Adjust bread plant final moulder plates and blades for dough type
- Monitor 4-piecing unit and adjust to achieve optimum formation in tins
- Monitor bread plant final moulding process to identify faults and rectify
- Complete bread plant dough final prove
- Bake bread plant dough
- Set baking temperatures and times to prepare for baking
- Visually check dough size to confirm readiness for baking
- Load oven and steam as required for product type
- Monitor baking to achieve baked colour and stability required for bread plant product type
- Unload and de-pan bread plant products to cool
- Monitor bread plant baking process to identify faults and rectify
- Check bread plant products bake to identify faults and rectify
- Complete work
- Clean equipment and work area to meet housekeeping standards
- Dispose of waste according to workplace requirements
- Complete workplace records according to workplace requirements
- Confirm product types and volumes to schedule production
- Calculate yield and adjust recipe to meet required production volumes
- Confirm work area and work practices meet food safety and workplace health and safety requirements
- Select and wear personal protective equipment according to safety requirements
- Select plant baking equipment, and load and position materials, ingredients and products to meet production requirements
- Measure ingredient quantities to meet recipe specification
- Load ingredients into mixer in required placement
- Operate and monitor mixer to achieve bread plant dough development for product type
- Monitor bread plant dough mixing process to identify faults and rectify