Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to work
- Monitor milk supply and quality
- Ensure the availability of milk supply for batch according to product specifications
- Check the sample data on milk for composition, homogeneity, somatic cell count and disk assay according to specification
- Maintain milk at temperature required for inoculation with the culture according to recipe and specifications
- Prepare cheese making equipment and add ingredients
- Ensure ingredients are available to meet product requirements
- Measure ingredients to meet recipe requirements
- Handle ingredients safely and according to procedures to maintain purity and viability
- Ensure equipment is ready for use according to operating procedures and safety requirements
- Set and operate cheese making equipment to meet specified requirements
- Load ingredients into the plant at the required stage
- Check the final mix against specifications
- Carry out process control and make adjustments according to operating procedures
- Implement equipment start-up and shutdown according to safety requirements and operating procedures
- Identify and report equipment faults
- Monitor cheese making processes taking required samples according to workplace procedures
- Carry out routine tests and record results according to workplace procedures
- Check cheese for food safety and quality requirements
- Identify, rectify and report out of specification cheese
- Package cheese for curing and distribution with correct batch number attached
- Clean equipment to meet production and hygiene requirements after each batch
- Record and review cheese making process
- Monitor cheese yields and compare to standards
- Review environmental practices and safety standards used in the process
- Maintain workplace records according to workplace procedures
- Organise the work tasks to be completed
- Identify workplace health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement control measures
- Identify food safety and quality non-compliance issues and report to supervisor
- Select and use appropriate personal protective equipment