dairy processing operator
ISCO: 8160. Skills: 54. Essential: 27.
Essential skills
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- be at ease in unsafe environments
- carry out checks of production plant equipment
- clean food and beverage machinery
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct cleaning in place
- dairy manufacturing specifications
- disassemble equipment
- ensure sanitation
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- follow production schedule
- follow verbal instructions
- follow written instructions
- food safety principles
- food storage
- maintain tanks
- monitor milk production deviations
- operate automated process control
- perform cleaning duties
- pump products
- secure goods
- tend dairy processing machines
- use dairy test materials
- work in a food processing team
Supporting skills
- administer ingredients in food production
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- analyse characteristics of food products at reception
- apply extruding techniques
- collect samples for analysis
- curdling of cheese
- dispose food waste
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production
- execute chilling processes to food products
- fermentation processes of food
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
- keep machines oiled for steady functioning
- label samples
- legislation about animal origin products
- lift heavy weights
- manufacturing process of ice cream
- microbiology of fresh milk
- operate a heat treatment process
- operate centrifuges
- operate equipment for food homogenisation
- operate pasteurisation processes
- perform curd processing of cheese
- ripening of cheese
- set up equipment for food production
- temperature scales
- tend milk filling machines
- ultra-high temperature processing