BAKER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: May 19, 2025 - The Baker prepares various dough types such as croissant, puff, sugar, and cookie dough while adjusting water temperature and tinting mixtures for desired results. This position ensures baking quality by monitoring oven conditions, inspecting products, and following precise work instructions for greasing tins, shaping, and baking items. This role maintains cleanliness and order by washing equipment daily and organizing supplies properly.

Content 1: Tips for Baker Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. Baker, Golden Crust Artisan Breads, Asheville, NC

Job Summary:

  • Assists with the proper ordering, rotation and inventory control of product in the department. 
  • Maintains good knowledge of the preparation and display of products in the department.
  • Assist with managing and directing the staff of the department, particularly in the absence of the Department Head/ Manager or Assistant Department Head/ Bakery Chief Clerk.
  • Follows all applicable Company policies and procedures, Government regulations, Health and Safety and Food Safety regulations.
  • Provides service to customers and responds to specific requests for products ie. breads, buns, cakes, pastries, cookies, and commercial bakery products.
  • Prepare bakery products from scratch, including measuring ingredients according to recipes, mixing ingredients to form dough or batter, molding or shaping product, proofing/resting product, baking, and then applying appropriate finishes according to bakery guidelines, pricing and merchandising.
  • Receive stock, unload and put away product and retrieve product from coolers/freezers.
  • Assist with cleanup of bakery area, shelves and glass display counters, as well a cleaning pans and trays and equipment. 
  • Clean and organize the back room/stock room, and cooler/freezer.
  • Assists the Department Head/ Manager in the overall successful operation of the Bakery.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Inventory control (Hard Skills)
  • Product knowledge (Hard Skills)
  • Staff management (Soft Skills)
  • Policy compliance (Soft Skills)
  • Customer service (Soft Skills)
  • Baking preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Stock handling (Hard Skills)
  • Area cleaning (Hard Skills)

2. Baker, Sunrise Farmhouse Bakery, Bozeman, MT

Job Summary:

  • Making dough by following the recipe card by measuring the ingredients in the mixing bowl.
  • Cutting the dough with dough cutting knife.
  • Dividing the dough into the required product.
  • Use the moulding machine to mould the dough into different types such as rolls, blocks of bread, bread sticks, and much more different variety of breads into design.
  • Loading tins and trays into proofers and into ovens.
  • Mixing and kneading dough and preparing other ingredients.
  • Weighing ingredients and calculating yield based on a given batch weight or flour weight.
  • Cutting and weighing dough and batter into portions with a divider knife.
  • Unloading the ovens and arranging for the cooling of products by placing them on cooling racks.
  • Monitoring oven temperatures and bread appearances to determine baking times.
  • Mixing icing or other decorating mixtures
  • Perform icing with brushes or spatulas, icing cupcakes and cutting and wrapping


Skills on Resume: 

  • Dough making (Hard Skills)
  • Dough cutting (Hard Skills)
  • Dough dividing (Hard Skills)
  • Machine moulding (Hard Skills)
  • Tray loading (Hard Skills)
  • Ingredient mixing (Hard Skills)
  • Yield calculation (Hard Skills)
  • Oven monitoring (Hard Skills)

3. Baker, Cozy Hearth Bakeshop, Eugene, OR

Job Summary:

  • Placing a decorative mixture into an icing bag fitted with a nozzle of a specified size and shape.
  • Tinting the mixture using food dyes to achieve the desired colour
  • Adjusting water temperature to meet the final finished dough temperature requirements.
  • Reading and interpreting work instructions.
  • Greasing the baking tins and lining them with waxed paper.
  • Inserting doughnuts, pies, and cookies into the oven and removing baked products.
  • Keeping supplies in a well-organized & tidy manner.
  • Cleaning and washing up all the equipment and tools used every day
  • Inspecting the product for quality during and after baking and making appropriate adjustments
  • Mixing sugar dough, croissant dough, puff dough and cookie dough.
  • Monitoring oven temperatures and product appearance to determine baking times


Skills on Resume: 

  • Icing piping (Hard Skills)
  • Color tinting (Hard Skills)
  • Temperature adjusting (Hard Skills)
  • Instruction reading (Soft Skills)
  • Tin greasing (Hard Skills)
  • Product baking (Hard Skills)
  • Supply organizing (Soft Skills)
  • Equipment cleaning (Hard Skills)

4. Baker, Maple Grove Sourdoughs, Bangor, ME

Job Summary:

  • Mix and bake ingredients according to the recipes
  • Follow through Operation processes and recipes for daily production to ensure proper quality and consistency is maintained.
  • Ensure efficient operation of each production and maintenance of equipment.
  • Ensure that cleaning of bakery equipment is done on a daily and weekly schedule.
  • Ensure that the bakery is kept clean, tidy and well-maintained at all times
  • Ensure compliance with all food safety standards in the bakery process
  • Assist to chefs, work together with the bakery team and ensure the smoothness in the daily production of breads, cakes and pastries
  • Create and innovate new recipes from time to time for breads, cakes and pastries and all other baking products
  • Assist in providing a safe, healthy environment for all guests and fellow associates
  • Assure that daily actions reflect TPI’s nine core values


Skills on Resume: 

  • Recipe execution (Hard Skills)
  • Process consistency (Hard Skills)
  • Equipment operation (Hard Skills)
  • Equipment cleaning (Hard Skills)
  • Bakery maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Safety compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Team collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Recipe innovation (Soft Skills)

5. Baker, Wildflower Oven Co., Flagstaff, AZ

Job Summary:

  • Support to make the cake
  • Perform cake decorating and restocking ingredients
  • Tracking and preserving finished products
  • Ensure the work area hygiene
  • Experience in making cakes and decorating cakes
  • Check out the menus and cakes to produce for the day
  • Ensuring the output quality of the finished cake
  • Human resource training and supervision
  • Prepare ingredients for baking
  • Cleaning and inventorying of materials
  • Ensure a high standard of cleanliness in and around the workstation and strictly abide by health/sanitation regulations
  • Assist in conceptualising and creating pastries, desserts and other baked goods


Skills on Resume: 

  • Cake support (Hard Skills)
  • Cake decorating (Hard Skills)
  • Product tracking (Hard Skills)
  • Area hygiene (Hard Skills)
  • Menu checking (Hard Skills)
  • Output quality (Hard Skills)
  • Staff supervision (Soft Skills)
  • Pastry creation (Hard Skills)

6. Baker, Whisk & Willow Bakery, Athens, GA

Job Summary:

  • Prevent and spot errors/maintain a high level of quality 
  • Baking a high volume of cookies, cupcakes, cakes, pastries, breakfast items for daily web shipments, local deliveries, store, and wholesale accounts
  • Assisting with inventory production, including preparing cookie dough, buttercreams, cakes, cupcakes, pastries, and breakfast items 
  • Assisting in opening or closing the kitchen and shop 
  • Keeping the shop & kitchen clean and organized 
  • Communicating with the production team to ensure that the front of the store is fully stocked and low inventory items are baked in a timely manner
  • Accountable for achieving established food preparation standards
  • Accountable for exceeding every guest’s expectations
  • Operate equipment safely and effectively for production processing.
  • Clearly understand and accountable for the expectations of the Baker position
  • Moulding dough into loaves or other shapes, and placing them in pans


Skills on Resume: 

  • Error prevention (Soft Skills)
  • High-volume baking (Hard Skills)
  • Inventory assistance (Hard Skills)
  • Shop closing (Hard Skills)
  • Kitchen cleaning (Hard Skills)
  • Team communication (Soft Skills)
  • Guest satisfaction (Soft Skills)
  • Dough moulding (Hard Skills)