Bakery Prep Hand

Mile End Bagels; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mile End Bagels in Melbourne is hiring for bakery prep roles to support our wood-fired bagels. You’ll prep cream cheese, fillings and daily prep, ensuring every batch matches our standard.

No formal qualifications needed; we train, offering full training in prep processes and a path into the bakery team. You should be comfortable on your feet and available 4–5 days a week.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications or baking experience required; training provided.
• Precise, repeatable prep following recipes and batch weights.
• Ability to work to strict timings and temperatures.
• FIFO and kitchen cleanliness requirements.

Responsibilities

• Prep sweet fillings and ingredients for bagels.
• Follow recipes and batch weights exactly.
• Maintain temperature controls and timing to keep production on track.
• Keep bakery stocked, labelled and rotated (FIFO).

Skills

Attention to detail

Consistency

Reliability

Comfortable on your feet

Job description

At Mile End, we make Australia's first and still only wood-fired bagels. We're a growing hospitality group with four Melbourne cafes (Fitzroy, Brunswick, Richmond, Hawthorn), all supplied out of our Fitzroy bakery and kitchen.

About the role

You’ll be making what goes on our bagels: cream cheese, sweet fillings and spreads, and the daily prep that keeps the bakery stocked

This is precise, repeatable work. You'll be setting our bakery team up for success, prepping what they need to make our signature wood-fired bagels.

What you'll be doing

Prepping sweet ingredients and fillings

Following recipes and batch weights exactly, every time

Working to timings and temperatures that don't move

Keeping the bakery clean, labelled, rotated and stocked (FIFO)

What we're looking for

Attention to detail - you notice when something's off and fix it rather than let it through

Consistency - batch 40 has to look like batch 1

Reliable - open availability across at least 4 to 5 days a week. The bakery runs 7 days; your roster will usually be weekdays plus one weekend day.

Comfortable on your feet

No formal qualifications or baking experience needed, we train everything.

What's in it for you

Full training in every prep process

A genuine path into our bakery team: learning dough and baking on the biggest wood-fired oven in Australia

Consistent shifts you can actually plan your week around