Elements and Performance Criteria
- Operate and monitor egg receiving equipment
- Production schedules are checked for egg type requirements, for example, cage, barn laid, free range and organic
- Eggs requiring manual loading are placed onto conveyor
- Conveyor, finger sorter and other egg receiving equipment are checked for jams and faults
- Primary and secondary wash and rinse machines and dryers are checked for correct operation
- Passage of eggs through crack and leak detectors, weighing stations is checked to make sure that faulty eggs are being identified and dropped out
- Sorting of eggs into different size lots is monitored for conformance to enterprise and job specification
- Operate and monitor denestor side egg packing lanes
- Correctly printed packaging is loaded onto lane take off holders according to production instructions or orders
- The correct number of size and grade of egg pallets and packs according to customer order are supplied to each lane
- Packing order requirements, including number of eggs per carton or tray, and number of cartons or trays per order type are entered into each lane through key pad terminal
- Mechanical setting of the lane machinery for different size trays is undertaken where required
- Setting of best before date printer is undertaken or checked
- Lanes are monitored to ensure that lanes do not run out of egg trays
- Operate and monitor backpack side egg packing lanes
- Number of cartons per order are determined from lane boards or other job instructions
- Packing lanes are monitored to ensure trays are being packed into correct outer packaging
- Trays not requiring packing are stacked into outer containers
- Quality checks are undertaken according to standard operating procedures, including checks on outer quality, date printing on all, eggs weights, cleanliness, Haugh unit reading, and misshapen and cracked eggs in cartons
- Work is conducted in accordance with workplace environmental guidelines
- Process damaged and faulty eggs
- Containers of faulty eggs from washers and damaged eggs from packing machines are collected and transported to liquid egg processing station
- Eggs are sorted into edible and inedible waste product
- Edible waste product are weighed and recorded within specified time intervals
- Faulty and damaged edible eggs are fed to egg breaking or egg pulping machine
- Egg pulping machine is started according to standard operating procedure
- Temperature of egg pulping machines are monitored and any over-temperatures reported
- Speed of pumps are monitored and adjusted to suit pulping and container filling operations
- Inedible egg waste product is weighed, recorded and disposed of according to procedures