As a Dairy Products Manufacturing Worker, you will need to master following:

• administer ingredients in food production
• apply GMP
• apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
• clean food and beverage machinery
• control fluid inventories
• dairy manufacturing specifications
• ensure public safety and security
• food safety principles
• legislation about animal origin products
• milk production process
• monitor milk production deviations
• operate a heat treatment process
• operate centrifuges
• operate equipment for food homogenisation
• tend dairy processing machines
• tend milk filling machines

More generally, a dairy products manufacturing worker is also versed in:

• act reliably
• apply HACCP
• carry out checks of production plant equipment
• follow hygienic procedures during food processing
• follow production schedule
• follow verbal instructions
• follow work procedures
• follow written instructions
• have computer literacy
• perform cleaning duties
• secure goods

It also helps to know the following:

• administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
• analyse characteristics of food products at reception
• check bottles for packaging
• conduct cleaning in place
• curdling of cheese
• dispose food waste
• execute chilling processes to food products
• fermentation processes of food
• ice cream manufacturing regulations
• ingredients for ice cream manufacturing
• label foodstuffs
• label samples
• manufacturing process of ice cream
• microbiology of fresh milk
• operate pasteurisation processes
• perform curd processing of cheese
• ripening of cheese
• ultra-high temperature processing
• variety of cheese
• collect samples for analysis
• comply with food safety and hygiene
• liaise with colleagues
• liaise with managers
• maintain tanks
• perform sensory evaluation of food products
• temperature scales