Profession animal feed operator

Animal feed operators tend various animal feed processing machines in industrial plants such as mixing machines, filling machines, and loading machines.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Prepared animal feeds contamination hazards

  Contamination and spoilage hazards related to animal feeds. Prevention and reaction.

• Prepared animal feeds

  Composition, nutritional specifications and formulas of animal feeds. Feed additives, energy values, nutritional and supplemental needs depending on different species. Feed requirements according to legislation in force.

Skills

• Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages

  Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.

• Dispose prepared animal feeds waste

  Dispose prepared animal feeds waste while striving to minimise the environmental impact of feed compositions. Follow the relevant legislation.

• Perform cleaning duties

  Perform cleaning duties such as waste removal, vacuuming, emptying bins, and general cleaning of the working area. Cleaning activities should follow health and safety regulations if required.

• Administer ingredients in food production

  Ngredients to be added and the required amounts according to the recipe and the way those ingredients are to be administered.

• Adhere to organisational guidelines

  Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.

• Control odours from prepared animal feeds production

  Control the odours generated during grinding, heating, and cooling, the discharge of liquid waste, and other emissions. May use thermal oxidiser for the purpose.

• Be at ease in unsafe environments

  Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.

• Apply HACCP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

• Apply GMP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

• Inspect silo systems

  Inspect silo systems to minimise any harmful emissions during their use.

• Manage the reception of raw materials for animal feeds

  Ensuring procurement and reception of raw materials, planning and execution of production, as well as the loading and dispatching of feed.

• Tend prepared animal feeds equipment

  Use equipment and material handling for the production of prepared animal feeds. Perform maintenance to machinery and ensure steady production ratios and productivity.

• Operate forklift

  Operate a forklift, a vehicle with a pronged device in front for lifting and carrying heavy loads.

• Follow evaluation procedures of materials at reception

  Oversee the delivery of incoming materials and follow a detailed procedure to evaluate and assess their characteristics accordingly.

• Carry out checks of production plant equipment

  Carry out checks of the machinery and equipment used in the production plant. Ensure that the machinery is working properly, set machines before usage, and assure continuous operability of the equipment.

• Adapt efficient food processing practices

  Ensure to adapt the most efficient production techniques to accomplish food processing tasks with the least amount of time, effort and costs.

• Have computer literacy

  Utilise computers, IT equipment and modern day technology in an efficient way.

• Clean food and beverage machinery

  Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.

• Fill sacks

  Fills sacks with feeds coming from a sack holder machine.

• Disassemble equipment

  Disassembles equipment using hand tools in order to clean equipments and to perform regular operational maintenance.

• Tolerate strong smells

  Tolerate strong smells expelled by the goods being processed during the production of goods.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB