Cooking Operator - Food Manufacturing (37836)
Job Description
Our client, market leader in the food manufacturing sector is looking to hire a Cooker, based in Midrand.
Educational Requirement & Experience:
- Matric or recognized equivalent qualification.
- Advantageous: Technical trade qualification (N3 or N4)
- Minimum 2 years' experience in Food Manufacturing
- Must have experience working in the food industry as a cooker.
- Must understand LEAN principles.
- Exposure to World Class Manufacturing techniques
Job Description:
- Take production run instruction (recipes) from the team leader for daily production run and execution.
- Must ensure that the work area is always clean and dry.
- Must ensure that all pre-weighed ingredients and their weights correspond with the information on the recipe.
- The cooking procedure will be done automatically by the Scada.
- Cooking record must be completed when cooking of a batch starts.
- Records of the cooking temperature(s) and time(s) can also be printed out from the Scada system.
- Ensure that steritainer is labelled with Product name, production code, date of production and line number.
- Check and verify all ingredients have been added, check water, oil and vinegar are being added by system.
- Responsible to notify Sanitation officer to start cleaning the pots after checking that the pots are empty.
- Responible for reporting downtime on Shopware.
- Responsible to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and equipment effectiveness goals as per set KPIs.
- Report scrap levels daily and submit information to the team leader for review.
- Responsible production attains OEE score of 65% or plus in work area.
- Responsible for production to attain wastage score of 2% or less in work area.
- Responsible for production to ensure stock accuracy in work area
- Responsible for checking or verifying tools/parts, removing, and sending to maintenance for repairs.
- Capture production progress on system accurately at start, during stoppage/downtime and at end of job.
- Participate in all required inventory control activities, namely, cycle counts, and stock takes.
- Participate in Operational Excellence initiatives.
- Any other reasonable task assigned by the team leader or manager.
- Be prepared to work overtime when required.
- Following all safety rules and policies.
- Wearing safety equipment and PPE.
- Reporting all dangerous or unsafe behaviour to the manager.
- Ensure all aspects for products to be produced in assigned work area meet critical quality factors, customer needs and acceptable standards as per shared production plan and shopware reports.
- Ensure PCD/ Summary reports are populated accurately and on-time on shopware.
- Responsible for production to attain 5S standard in work area.
- Identify ripping / slip hazard.
- Working with hot product / hot surfaces - burning hazard.
- Check set point temperature have been reached before taking samples.
- Cooker to raise job card if set points are not met.
- Record the time at which the sample is taken on the cooking record.
- Submit the sample to the QA Lab for analysis together with the recipe. The recipe should have the following information: Date of production, production code, SAP batch number, material number and it needs to be signed off by the production group leader. Also attach pick slip to the recipe.
- Initially 1 shift, possibly rotational at a later stage
Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted & only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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