MIXER 1ST SHIFT MOTLEY PLANT

Essential Functions

• Reviews Batch Schedule to ensure correct ingredients and amounts are used in each batch.
• Lifts frozen product onto pallets or pitches frozen product into crusher.
• Weighs or measures ingredients and product to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Operates the Mixer to blend ingredients and adds new ingredients at the appropriate times throughout the mix process per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
• Observes equipment and alerts maintenance of breakdowns and mechanical problems.
• Makes minor adjustments to equipment to control product flow or adjust color hue.
• Examines ingredients and product visually and with hands in order to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Stops mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and starts pumps to transfer mixture.
• Notifies Quality Assurance of any ingredients that may not meet the required standards.
• Keeps equipment, tools and work area clean in accordance with company specifications.
• Records information for each batch mixed per company specifications.
• Dismantles and cleans equipment according to standard sanitation procedures then reassembles it.

Minimum Requirements

• 3 to 6 months food manufacturing experience preferred but not required.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb ladders to elevated platforms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee moves objects regularly up to 5 pounds frequently up to 25 pounds occasionally up to 30 pounds.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance plans.
• Optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs.
• Basic life and AD&D.
• 401(k) with a company match.
• Vacation, sick time, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave.