CHEESEMAKER & PROCESSING HEAD

Position: CHEESEMAKER & PROCESSING HEAD

Job Location: Muscat Oman

Nationality: European / UK national 

• To manage milk processing, pasteurizer and correct cutting programme and cutters.
• To operate to ISO22000 standards
• To process cheese, yoghurt, butter, Ice cream and other dairy lines as per Farm requirements.
• Ability to make artisan handmade cheeses according to agreed recipes to International Standards and above.
• R & D to be done on new recipes to be trialed internally for approval.
• Straining, filling Molds, managing drying fridge and checking PH and acidity to recipe.  

Other Duties & Responsibilities

• To provide samples from to the Laboratory for testing.
• To ensure maintenance and hygiene schedules for equipment are adhered to.
• To develop product range.
• Maintain, fill cheese section by packaging, weighing and labelling product.
• Daily Cheese turning.
• Brine work and any disposal as per farm SOP requirements.
• Monitor and control inventory to ensure that we have the correct shelf and display inventory for projected sales including additional displays.
• Monitoring and recording that food safety/HACCP practices are being followed
• Recording temperature in daily logs to monitor the safe storage of aging and ready to sell cheese. Record all as per company procedures into farm software.
• Monitor all processed produce, batch numbers, volumes and quality checks.
• Monitor processing equipment and report necessary service requirements.
• Daily cleaning as per HACCP requirements and processing SOP requirements.

Minimum Certification in Dairy Science or Food Science.

Qualifications: Language English Speaking. Certified Artisan Cheesemaker an advantage.

Key Competencies:

Precise attention to detail, hygiene, and process control.

Comprehensive knowledge of quality control procedures.

Physically capable and dexterous and able to lift heavy items.

Salary OMR 1700-2000 + Food + Single accommodation + visa