Senior Operator Process

Key Accountabilities:

1. Accurate Product Preparation:

   • Analysis: Ensuring batches are prepared accurately according to approved recipes with meticulous documentation.

   • Importance: Maintains product consistency and quality, crucial for meeting production and customer standards.

2. Equipment Preparation and Cleaning:

   • Analysis: Implementing cleaning, sterilizing, and preparation procedures for all mixing and processing equipment.

   • Importance: Prepares equipment for production, ensuring adherence to hygiene and safety standards.

3. Quality Control and Inspections:

   • Analysis: Conducting inspections and quality control checks throughout the mixing and processing stages.

   • Importance: Monitors product quality, identifies deviations, and ensures compliance with specifications.

4. Monitoring and Reporting Abnormal Events:

   • Analysis: Hourly inspections to detect abnormalities, document events, and report to team leaders.

   • Importance: Prevents operational disruptions and maintains continuous production flow.

5. Safety and Compliance:

   • Analysis: Ensuring adherence to safety protocols, good manufacturing practices (GMPs), and hygiene practices (GHPs).

   • Importance: Promotes a safe working environment and compliance with regulatory standards.

6. Training and Development:

   • Analysis: Training and coaching new operators, potentially acting as a team leader.

   • Importance: Builds team competency and ensures operational continuity through knowledge transfer.

Skills and Job Requirements:

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent, preferably with technical school background.

  • Analysis: Provides foundational education essential for technical understanding and operational execution.

• Experience: 5-7 years in a large dairy processing unit, with specific experience in TetraPak, Alfa Laval, or GEA equipment.

  • Analysis: Demonstrates extensive hands-on experience and specialized knowledge in dairy processing equipment.

• Technical Expertise:

  • Analysis: Strong knowledge of processing principles including recombining, pasteurizing, homogenization, and aseptic transfer.

  • Importance: Essential for executing operations with precision and efficiency.

• Work Schedule Flexibility:

  • Analysis: Ability to work varying shifts (mornings, evenings, weekends) to support production needs.

  • Importance: Ensures availability during critical production periods, maintaining operational continuity.

• Language Skills:

  • Analysis: Fluent in English (written and spoken), with knowledge of Arabic as an advantage.

  • Importance: Facilitates effective communication in a diverse work environment.