Blender (Hiring for All Shifts)

About the Company

Somafina is a leading nutraceutical builder and manufacturing company specializing in supplements and vitamins for third-party clients. Our expert formulators, flavor chemists, and factory engineers empower nutraceutical brands to reach their customers in the most user-friendly delivery format. We are committed to innovation and excellence in our facilities.

Responsibilities

• Sets up and operates electro-mechanical machinery such as sifters and blenders of diverse volume capacities.
• Inspects materials for any foreign objects that may adulterate the batch.
• Follows the blending instructions that are placed on the batch record.
• Follows work instructions to perform each process step per set standards of health/quality, efficiency and safety.
• Uses scales and computers to collect and record information, such as weight, batch code, time of blend, if intensifier bar is needed, and amount of barrels produced.
• Investigates if product yield is not met and reports, in writing, a reasonable justification.
• Uses hand tools for the assembly and disassembly of removable machine parts.
• Uses cleaning tools and sanitation substances to prepare room and equipment per public health standards of food products.
• Keeps cleaning tools and substances outside blending rooms and maintains them clean, pure, and in good order.
• Contributes to department team incentive goals based on productivity, quality of work, and accuracy.
• Supports and involves in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures, programs, and activities.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED; or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Basic computer skills to input data into the database.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must obtain and maintain a current food handler's permit.
• Written and spoken English proficiency required.

Skills

• Friendly
• Approachable
• Proactive
• Honest
• Responsible
• Punctual
• Team worker

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and converse and listen.
• Must exert up to 99 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 40 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects.
• Specific vision abilities required include near acuity, far acuity, accommodation, color vision, and field of vision.

Pay

All Blender positions begin with a 2-week training period. Upon successful completion of training, employees move to a full Somafina position with an immediate pay increase.

Shift Shift Hours Training Pay (First 2 Weeks) Pay After Training Period Day Shift 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM $17.00/hr $23.00/hr Swing Shift 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM $18.00/hr $24.00/hr 3rd Shift 10:00 PM – 6:30 AM $19.00/hr $25.00/hr

Schedule

• Day Shift: 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM
• Swing Shift: 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM
• 3rd Shift: 10:00 PM – 6:30 AM

Interested applicants may indicate shift preference during the application process.