Process Cooker

Carry out activities in the process cooking area, ensuring the highest quality product is pre-weighed, packed, labelled, palletised and cooked for production; to ensure customer requirements are met.

• Good literacy and numeracy skills e.g. English & Maths Matric equivalent
• Mechanical aptitude
• At least 1 year's experience in a similar handson role.

• Collect documents from the last shift and analyse challenges encountered.
• Check if correct recipe is loaded on Scarda (on the cooker screen).
• Collect ingredients from preweigh using palate jerk, checking if they are correct.
• Follow recipes accurately, dispense and weigh out raw ingredients and understand the procedures in the dry, wet ingredient rooms and in the cookers/cooking platform.
• Set up, run and operate specified cooking process lines and associated equipment within the cooking processing area, without supervision.
• Check that the pots are clean, following procedures to avoid contamination.
• Strip and clean specific process lines and associated equipment.
• Route product to the correct cooking lines.
• Fault find and report any breakdowns on the lines, carrying out basic repair / maintenance requirements.
• Correctly carry out any required quality checks and constantly monitor the quality of the product being made.
• Accurately complete all necessary Production and Quality documentation.
• Utilise the company's manufacturing operations system, to ensure the accuracy of cooking/cooked product.
• Assist with the training of other employees as necessary.
• Scan record production information.
• Deliver samples at the lab for quality assurance.
• Transfer product to feeder once QA approves.
• Clean area of work in accordance with required standards.
• Liaise with colleagues, ensuring continuity of OEE and carrying out effective handovers both verbally and in writing to the next shift.
• Ensure the correct receipt as per cooking plan is followed.
• Ensure each ingredient is scanned with PDA scanner to the cooking pot
• Attend the prestart meetings 10 min before the shift start
• Report any deviations of cooking to the cooking team leader
• Follow the Batch weighing system by ensuring no mixed ingredients are used on the cooking

• Adhere at ALL times to the Standard Operating Procedures, carrying out duties following Good Manufacturing Practices, 5S practices and being responsible for hygiene and housekeeping in & around the work area.
• Adhere to all health and safety regulations, ensuring adherence to PPE regulations while working within a safe working environment.
• Ensure full compliance with Company Quality, Food Safety, Health & Safety and Environmental requirements.

• Basic Food Hygiene certificate is an advantage

• Experience of working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience of working to recipes/procedures
• Experience of working within a food preparation environment is an advantage

• Able to work in a team
• Good communication skills
• Problem solving and fault finding skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Flexible approach to working
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude towards work and colleagues