Vacation Relief Cheese Production Operator

Tillamook County Creamery Association; Umatilla (OR); On-site; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

You will monitor ingredients, record lots, and ensure the product meets Tillamook quality standards with integrity and teamwork.

This role offers hands-on experience in HTST pasteurization, cheese vats, and dairy processing within our collaborative facility.

Qualifications

• This position requires one to take initiative, be dependable, adaptable, maintain a positive attitude and integrity, and work well with others.

Responsibilities

• The Vacation Relief Operator is responsible for the production and testing of the different stages in the cheese-making process.
• They will record all necessary information used to track the manufacturing of product produced at this facility.
• This position requires knowledge of all areas in the plant: Utility, Operator (including Milk Receiving), Starter, Post Process and Cheese Vats.
• Monitor and record the system and supplier lot numbers, amounts and addition times for all ingredients (milk, color, starter, rennet, salt, jalapenos/habaneros).
• Monitor and record the cheese making steps according to the recipe for the product being produced that day, including milk temperature, set firmness, and cook temperature.
• Monitor and record acid production by the starter bacteria.
• Explain each step in the cheese making process and what is occurring chemically and physically to the product at that step.
• Communicate with Post Process Operators, Team Leads and Shift Supervisor.
• Start and operate the milk HTST and provide pasteurized or heat shocked milk to the vat operator as per the production schedule.
• Perform component testing of milk silos per procedure posted in the lab by the FT1 analyzer, communicate to vat operator, and post in log book.
• Standardize the cheese milk with sweet cream per standardization document.
• Process whey received from the vats per raw whey processing document.
• Operation Monitoring & Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Pasteurize raw whey cream and sweet cream.
• Operate the Separator and Clarifier as needed.
• Starter Maker: Sample and test finished starter for activity.

Job description

You will monitor ingredients, record lots, and ensure the product meets Tillamook quality standards with integrity and teamwork.

This role offers hands-on experience in HTST pasteurization, cheese vats, and dairy processing within our collaborative facility.