Join Lactalis at our Ice Cream Plant in Cape Town as an Operator. The Operator position plays a critical role in the production process and general housekeeping around the production area. Ensures compliance to production planning requirements.
Required Skills
At least 5 years experiences within the Ice Cream manufacturing environment
Quality driven individual.
Willingness to do repetitive work.
Punctuality and attendance reliability is essential.
Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, public holidays, shifts and/ or flexible hours.
Ability to work in a team as well as independent.
Be accurate and pay attention to detail.
Be able to prioritize workloads and work under pressure.
Excellent problem solving skills.
Have completed the basic dairy course.
Duties & Responsibilities
Daily checks and records to be updated and signed off.
Familiar with offloading procedure of milk receiving and documentation.
Ordering of materials required for the daily mixing production.
Make-up of batches according to the recipes sheets per product required.
Assemble of equipment in the blending room.
Blending of materials in the blending room.
Ensure that divert test is done daily before start of processing.
CIP of empty ageing vats
Directly control and operate the mixing process.
End of shift: CIP’s (pasteuriser, homogeniser, buttermelter, milk silo’s, ageing vats, flavour vats, conitnuous freezers, soft serve, catta, vegetable tank).
Sanitize of Plant to take place after the CIP process.
Adhere and participate in internal audits: FSSC 22000
Comply with all SHER requirements.
Participate in continuous improvement processes.
Ensure neat housekeeping of the ice cream processing areas at all times.
Control and update all relevant documentation including check sheets