Bakeries and Tortillas
Bakeries and Tortillas
Think of almost anything made with flour(s), and you’ll find yourself in the Bakeries and Tortillas industry! Breads, doughs, bagels, pitas, cakes, cookies, crackers, pizzas, pasta, pancakes, flour mixes, doughnuts and pastries, are just a few of the delicious foods being baked up. In this sector, some of the products are shipped to retailers, ready for families to eat like breads and muffins, while others are shelf-stable products, designed to let you make your own home-creations like pizza crusts, cake mixes and frozen pies.
Careers are on the rise in the Bakeries sector.
Here’s some areas of interest:
Commercial Bakeries
Commercial Bakeries Large scale fresh & frozen products are made in commercial bakeries and shipped across the country for us to enjoy daily. Bagels, Breads, dinner rolls, buns (hamburger, hot dog), muffins, croissants, pretzels, Na’an breads, Pitas, and doughnuts. You’ll even find products like croutons and bread crumbs made here.
Cookies & Crackers
Cookies & Crackers Graham crackers, wafers, cookies, shortbreads, ice cream cones, and soda crackers.
Dry Pastas
Imagine a life without Mac & Cheese? Thanks to our friends in the Bakery & Tortillas sector, we don’t have to! All dry pastas and noodles are made here, such as vermicelli, spaghetti, orzo, egg noodles, udon, macaroni and more.
Dough
Cookie dough- need we say more? Roll out your own pizza dough for dinner tonight, or try countless types of frozen doughs, waffles, etc
Mixes
Become a master baker at home with the wide variety of dry mixes for all occasions such as pancakes, cookies, cakes, muffins, doughs, scones, and flour mixes, just to name a few.
Tortillas
Love Mexican food? Perhaps a burrito will hit the spot? Making tortilla shells and chips is an art and age old tradition, that has been strategically scaled up to a commercial level, bringing fresh ingredients to your table internationally.
PASTRIES
With it’s sweet flavour and flaky texture, Baklava is always a favourite pastry! This subsector makes fresh and frozen pies, croissants, strudels, cannolis, tarts, and much more on an industrial scale.
COMPANIES YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE
OCCUPATIONS “NOC”KING AT YOUR DOOR:
Cookie, Cracker, Tortilla and Pasta Manufacturing
- Bakery Supervisor (NOC 9213)
- Bakery Plant Supervisor (NOC 9213)
- Head Mixer – Bakery (NOC 9213)
- Bakery Foreperson (NOC 9213)
- Baking Foreperson (NOC 9213)
- Batter and Dough Mixer (NOC 9461)
- Cracker and Cooker Machine Operator (NOC 9461)
- Dough Maker (NOC 9461)
- Dough Roller (NOC 9461)
- Dough Feeder (NOC 9461)
- Flour Blender Operator (NOC 9461)
- Frozen Dough Making Machine Tender (NOC 9461)
- Pasta Maker (NOC 9461)
- Sponge and Dough Mixer (NOC 9461)
- Dough Feeder (NOC 9617)
- Dough Weigher (NOC 9617)
- Tortilla Maker
