Dairy-products makers

Dairy products makers process butter and various types of cheese, cream or other dairy products.

Job Responsibilities

• Boiling or pasteurizing milk to achieve specified butter fat content
• Separating cream from milk and churning cream into butter
• Dumping measured amounts of starter and other ingredients into milk
• Curdling milk, heating curd until it reaches desired firmness, draining curd and placing cheese into moulds to press it into shape
• Salting cheese and piercing or smearing cheese with cultured wash to develop mould growth
• Placing and turning cheese blocks on shelves to cure cheese
• Monitoring product quality before packaging by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
• Recording amounts of ingredients used, test results, and time cycles