Vacancy: Cheesemaker
Summary: Our client in the dairy industry seeks a cheese maker.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
Summary: Our client in the dairy industry seeks a cheese maker.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- College
Degree/Diploma with 5+ years of experience in food industry
- Cheese
Makers training course (preferred)
- Ability
to work on repetitive tasks with speed and accuracy
- Ability
to regularly lift up to 50 pounds
- Positive
attitude, flexible approach, ability to work as a team and commitment for
goals
- Willingness
to adhere to the strictest level of hygiene at all times
- Strong
communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Must be
self-motivated, results oriented, possess high degree of initiative, and
work well under pressure.
- Demonstrated
excellent performance of work within the department.
Job Duties:
- Cooks
milk and specified ingredients to make cheese, according to formula:
Pasteurizes and separates milk to obtain prescribed butterfat content.
- Turns
valves to fill vat with milk and heat milk to specified temperature.
- Dumps
measured amounts of dye and starter into milk.
- Test
sample of milk for acidity and allow agitator to mix ingredients until
specified level of acidity reach
- Dump
and mix measure amount of rennet into milk
- Stop
agitator to allow milk to coagulate into curd
- Pull
curd knives through curd or separate curd with hand scoop to release whey
- Observe
thermometer, adjusts steam valve and starts agitator to stir and cook curd
at prescribed temperature for specified time
- Squeeze
and stretch sample of curd with fingers and extend cooking time for
firmness or texture
- Give
direction to cheesemaker helper or other workers to make curd, drain whey
from curd, add ingredients, such as seasonings, cut, pile and pump and
press curd into specified shapes
- Oversee
workers to ensure that proper GMPs follow
- Direct
other workers who immerse cheese in brine and place or turn cheese blocks
on shelves to cure cheese
- Taste,
smell, feel and observe sample of cheese for quality
- Record
amount of ingredients used, test results, time cycles and corrective
actions
- Make
variation in time cycles and ingredients used for succeeding batches to
ensure optimum yields and product quality
- Assist
in the formulation development of new cheeses and optimization of formula
for current cheese to ensure maximum yield and product quality
Qualifying candidates should send their application letter
together with detailed Curriculum Vitae to recruit@odumont.com before
C.O.B 15th March 2013.
