- Observe and operate gauges to verify specified processing conditions and make adjustments to process variables such as cooking times, ingredient inputs, flow rates, and temperature settings
- Maintain shift log of production and other data
- Learn and apply craft and culinary skills to ensure specific nuances are attended to and to adjust to produce a “better than” quality and consistency. Set up and adjust food processing kettles and surrounding tanks
- Operate single-function machines to mix and blend to process food products
- Check products to ensure conformance to company standards and clear machine blockages as required
- Record production information such as quantity, date, and type of products blended. corrective machine adjustments, clean machines, and immediate work areas
- Work is performed indoors, where safety measures must be followed to prevent injury from machinery, tools, spillage, and heat
- Initial training will include WHMIS, annual training, and health and safety training
- Do a pre-operational audit to ensure the proper functioning of all critical components of the system, sanitation meets the standard, and pre-rinse all kettles, pipes, pumps, and buffer tanks before and after production
- Set up system for the specific product requirements
- Check inline magnets and filters for cleanliness
- Come to work in good physical and mental condition in order to execute duties exceptionally well and safely
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Organized with a great attention to detail
- Reliable and Dependable
Prior to starting your shift AND during your working shift, communicate with key members of your assigned areas in production to fully understand the current setup and flow plan. Before you begin, it is critical, that you are fully prepared with an understanding of the day’s needs.
This information is essential in order to maintain an efficient flow and to deliver safe products.
Operate multi-function process control machinery through control panels or other control systems to mix, blend, cook or otherwise process food products.