Apprentice Baker / Pastry Chef

Three Mills Bakery; Canberra; On-site; AUD 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Three Mills Bakery is seeking energetic apprentices to join our team and learn hands-on artisan bread and pastry production. You will work across two sites, with day and night shifts shared among the team, including weekends. Remuneration will be based on experience as we train you in our craft.

We value passion for baking, strong teamwork, and reliability as we develop world-class products for our cafes and wholesale clients across Canberra and surrounding areas.

Qualifications

• Apprentice bakery role; willingness to learn artisan techniques.
• Basic baking or kitchen experience helpful but not required.
• Strong communication and teamwork are essential for daily operations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in producing handmade sourdough breads and pastries.
• Follow recipes and maintain quality control across products.
• Operate basic bakery equipment as trained and supervised.
• Participate in cross-training across pastry, kitchen and front-of-house teams.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Sense of urgency

Organisation

Cleanliness

Team Work

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a apprentice Bakers & Pastry Chefs to join our team to produce hand made artisan breads and pastries.

We're using some state of the art equipment along with staying true to our artisan craft and hand forming products.

The Bakery operates 7 days a week, across 2 sites. Shifts are varied depending on your study day. We are always cross training and ensuring day shifts and night time shifts are shared. Weekend work is expected.

Remuneration will be based on experience.

ABOUT US

We believe hospitality and retail food businesses are the beating heart of a community. Places to connect or escape, share a meal, swap a story, form an idea, or simply grab something you love to take home with you.

It's our mission to not only make incredible products, but to run a world class business by having a seriously great team, strong principles, excellent company culture, and enormous respect for our clients.

Our door is always open to passionate people who love their craft.

Not only does Three Mills supply hand-made sourdough and pastries direct to our customers through our 5 cafes, we also supply local Canberra cafes / restaurants & independent grocers.

ABOUT YOU

You must be wildly excited about creating incredible products!

We're a young and energetic team committed to hand-made sourdough and pastries and continually pushing towards excellence in our industry.

We are here to create joy through our craft at every point of contact we have, with our own team members, with customers that visit us at our sites, with our wholesale clients locally and nationally.

We welcome people who share our passion and are driven to produce world class products and services.

We invest heavily in R&D and work collaboratively across all departments (pastry, kitchen, bakery, marketing, operations, front of house, finance) to achieve best outcomes.

More about you

The successful applicant can demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:

• Communication
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Sense of urgency
• Organisation
• Cleanliness
• Team Work

If you're someone who works well in a team environment and enjoys being a reliable and valued member of an energetic organisation, we'd love to hear from you!

OUR VALUES

Create Joy through our artisan craft - one experience at a time

Stay Curious. Rethink & improve

Be Generous. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness