Confectioner

General: Prepares ingredients and shapes and cooks confectionery. Tasks Include: examines production schedules to determine confectionery types and quantities to be produced checks the cleanliness and operation of equipment weighs and mixes batches of ingredients controls temperature and pressure in boilers used to make boiled sweets cools, folds, coats, slices, moulds and wraps sweets by hand or machine operates equipment which makes chocolate from beans and refines and tempers chocolate operates coating and moulding machines