Job Description    

• 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