Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish shift operating environment
- Identify products and quantities to be produced by mill during shift
- Identify from authorised suppliers, the supplier of grain used during shift and the varieties supplied
- Apply required costing and control procedures to achieve set key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Establish range of available equipment and any unique design or operating factors
- Identify staffing and work organisation for shift
- Identify any budget and/or budget operating procedures relevant for shift operations
- Monitor quality during shift
- Identify specifications for flour to be produced during shift
- Identify performance indicators and production targets for mill and mill departments during shift
- Supervise testing regime for mill during shift
- Monitor performance against targets and indicators
- Report non-conformances and take appropriate corrective actions
- Set and supervise grain supply and intake procedures
- Set and supervise grain conditioning process and specifications
- Supervise production
- Identify shift production targets
- Obtain or determine recipes
- Formulate and supervise preparation of grist
- Supervise milling of individual grains
- Set blending requirements, including any use of additions and adjuncts
- Allocate production specifications for shift to departments
- Ensure production records are kept
- Monitor production against targets
- Integrate maintenance schedule with shift operations
- Identify shift preventative maintenance requirements from maintenance department and/or equipment suppliers
- Supervise equipment monitoring and maintenance responsibilities for operators, maintenance department and other staff
- Identify and approve timing for any regular maintenance activities that will disrupt production
- Supervise breakdown notification and repair procedures
- Implement risk management procedures
- Supervise implementation of workplace health and safety and dust control procedures
- Monitor Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) procedures during shift
- Monitor compliance with environmental and sustainability regulations and targets
- Monitor operations against any required regulatory compliance, including required reporting procedures
- Provide guidance to other mill employees