Elements and Performance Criteria
- Operate and monitor egg receiving equipment
- Check production schedules for egg type requirements
- Wear appropriate personal protective equipment and ensure correct fit
- Conduct pre-start checks on egg receiving equipment according to operator instructions
- Place eggs requiring manual loading onto conveyor
- Check conveyor, finger sorter and other egg receiving equipment for jams and faults
- Check primary and secondary wash and rinse machines and dryers for correct operation
- Check passage of eggs through crack and leak detectors, and weighing stations to confirm that faulty eggs are being identified and dropped out
- Monitor sorting of eggs into different size lots for conformance to enterprise and job specification
- Operate and monitor denester side egg packing lanes
- Load printed packaging onto lane take off holders according to production instructions or orders
- Supply the correct number of size and grade of egg pallets and packs to each lane according to customer order
- Enter packing order requirements, including number of eggs per carton or tray, and number of cartons or trays per order type into each lane through key pad terminal
- Undertake mechanical setting of the lane machinery for different size trays where required
- Check setting of best before date printer
- Monitor lanes to ensure that lanes do not run out of egg trays
- Operate and monitor backpack side egg packing lanes
- Determine number of cartons per order from lane boards or other job instructions
- Monitor packing lanes to ensure trays are being packed into correct outer packaging, and rectify or report any out-of-specification outcomes according to workplace requirements
- Stack trays not requiring packing into outer containers
- Undertake quality checks of eggs throughout all stages of process for compliance with food safety standards and workplace requirements
- Process damaged and faulty eggs
- Collect and transport containers of faulty eggs from washers and damaged eggs from packing machines to liquid egg processing station
- Sort eggs into edible and inedible waste product according to food safety standards and workplace requirements
- Weigh and record edible waste product within specified time intervals
- Feed faulty and damaged edible eggs to egg breaking or egg pulping machine
- Start egg pulping machine according to workplace procedures
- Monitor temperature of egg pulping machines and report any over-temperatures
- Monitor and adjust speed of pumps to suit pulping and container filling operations
- Weigh, record and dispose of inedible egg waste product according to workplace procedures