SUMMARY:
Cheese Maker (Processed Cheese)
POSITION INFO:
Responsible for the quality of products produced by line. Leading staff towards the achievement of overall production targets as communicated by the Supervisor.
Requirements:
- Matric Certificate
- Dairyman Qualification or Cheese Making Certificate or equivalent
- 3-5 years’ experience within a production environment
- Computer literate
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that you have adequate knowledge of the production plan for shift
- Ensure that you have adequate knowledge of staff issues/problems on shift
- Ensure the pre-start-up steps are done in the area of responsibility and all problem areas or possible problem areas are identified and addressed
- Ensure that all problems /possible problem areas above responsibility level are communicated to supervisors and escalated to the correct person/position
- Ensure that all processes regarding machine pre-start-up and start-up are done (Machine operator)
- Initiate, manage, and control the process cheese-making process
- Ensure all HACCP documentation is completed and submitted to the department Supervisor as per SOP
- Measure efficiency of the team members/ repartees on an on-going basis to ensure that targets and objectives are met
- Check that areas and equipment are visually clean after following a validated cleaning procedure and ready for use as per SOP
- Report any machine breakdowns/stoppages to the supervisor, after trying to solve problems within unit
- Data-input is done into the appropriate system for costing purposes/ all data is checked as per SOP (e.g. Traksys)
- Effectively respond to queries and instructions by the Quality department on shift
- Supervise ongoing compliance, e.g. appropriate PPE and housekeeping
- Participates and supports the implementation of Best Practices and other continuous improvement initiatives
- Participate in the implementation of the corrective action and preventative action
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