Batchmaker

Responsibilities

• Fulfills batch formulation, mixing materials, quality color matching/tinting, and quality of finished product processing duties.
• Maintains quality and cleanliness of the work area and equipment.
• Follows safety guidelines and uses required safety equipment.
• Adds approved materials accurately and efficiently using electro gauges, valves, temperature controls, flow meters, or other related equipment.
• Mixes materials and performs quality checks for dispersion approval and transfer to the next step in the production process.
• Maintains efficiency of material additions/flow by checking and changing filters.
• Maintains quality and cleanliness of the work area and equipment.
• Utilizes color spectrophotometer and eye shading expertise to match batches to customer specifications.
• Maintains quality and cleanliness of the work area and equipment.
• Ensures batches are properly and expeditiously transferred into scheduled tanks for thin-down and color matching/tinting.
• Maintains quality and cleanliness of the work area and equipment.
• Performs quality control checks and procedures prescribed by central labs to ensure effective, accurate, and expeditious processing with first run capability.
• Makes appropriate additions to production batch as prescribed by quality assurance lab using approved materials.
• Reutilizes resources for re-work materials in accordance with approved procedures by central lab.
• Communicates with other departments during production process, i.e., mixing, milling, and filling/packaging.
• Scheduled appropriate holding tanks for proper coordination of product processing.
• Maintains clean filters for transferring products and materials during production processing.
• Willingness to work and cross-train in other departments frequently.
• Operates forklift or other related equipment by checking battery, electrical charger hook-up, etc.
• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications

• High School degree required.
• Basic math skills, including addition and subtraction.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately match color specifications.
• Ability to work in a team environment and cross-functionally.
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and cleanliness.
• Ability to use company software and computer system programs.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work safely and follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Ability to operate fill by weight machine, video jet, labeler, palletizer, case packer, can and carton computer, and depalletizer.