Cooking Operator - Food Manufacturing

Job Title: Cooker

Our client, a 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.
• Ensure that the work area is always clean and dry.
• 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 the system.
• Responsible to notify the Sanitation officer to start cleaning the pots after checking that the pots are empty.
• Responsible 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 for production to attain OEE score of 65% or plus in the work area.
• Responsible for production to attain wastage score of 2% or less in the work area.
• Responsible for production to ensure stock accuracy in the work area.
• Responsible for checking or verifying tools/parts, removing, and sending to maintenance for repairs.
• Capture production progress on the system accurately at start, during stoppage/downtime, and at the end of the 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.
• Follow all safety rules and policies.
• Wear safety equipment and PPE.
• Report 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 the work area.
• Identify ripping/slip hazards.
• Working with hot products/hot surfaces – burning hazard.
• Check set point temperatures 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.