Operator II-1

To operate production machinery safely and efficiently, maintain appropriate documentation, and communicate ideas and problems to appropriate staff. Responsibilities include performing scheduled preventative maintenance, repairs, and production equipment changeovers, as well as ensuring the highest quality product.

Safety

• Follow all employer safety and health regulations as required by company policies, procedures, and practices.
• Ensure the safe and efficient operation of all downstream equipment to meet or exceed company-established safety culture.
• Follow Lock out/Block Out/Tag out policy.
• Wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) where required.
• Proactively address unsafe conditions and confront unsafe behaviors in the facility.
• Address all unsafe acts or conditions immediately and report to Shift Production Supervisor.
• Participate in and/or conduct safety training as scheduled.

Daily Operations

• Demonstrate skilled understanding and experience operating machinery.
• Exemplify leadership while on and off the production floor.
• Train new and existing employees on various operations procedures.
• Thoroughly understand entire operations processes from start to finish.
• Monitor and explain deviations from expected Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Complete any machine and task-specific training as documented on Operator Development Plan.
• Perform necessary Operator Checklists.
• Perform data collection of quality measurements as directed.
• Correct any deviations from quality standards to produce product within specifications.
• Monitor and respond to deviations within SPC charting.
• Communicate problems, progress reports, and continuous improvement ideas to management staff, maintenance, and production personnel.
• Perform maintenance tasks as outlined by Maintenance Manager and in response to machine malfunctions.
• Troubleshoot machine and process issues.
• Responsible for personal development by establishing SMART goals, requesting regular meetings with managers, volunteering for plant improvement teams, requesting additional training, seeking involvement beyond immediate job responsibilities, and pursuing higher education opportunities.
• Provide suggestions for training topics.
• Maintain accurate production reporting documentation.
• Actively participate in plant teams and activities including safety, quality, sustainability, community involvement, OEE, maintenance, employee wellness, brainstorming, and continuous improvement.
• Operate Powered Industrial Truck, Boom Lift, and Scissor Lift per OSHA regulations, rules, and guidelines.

Quality/GMP/Food Safety

• Responsible for producing and/or packing the best quality product at all times to meet or exceed company and customer quality expectations.
• Label and/or tag all production and maintain raw and packaging material traceability by recording lot codes as required.
• Isolate and track all non-conforming products and materials.
• Perform quality and downstream testing and measurements, and record results in the specified system or form as directed.
• Communicate out-of-specification conditions, food safety, and food defense issues to the appropriate personnel.
• Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), personnel practices, HACCP, and prerequisite food safety programs.
• Ensure work is performed in a manner that prevents foreign material contamination.
• Maintain a clean, organized work area through effective housekeeping, sanitization, and waste management practices by following the master cleaning and sanitization schedule.
• Proactively resolve housekeeping and sanitization opportunities.

Preventive Maintenance

• Perform scheduled production equipment changeovers as outlined by the plant production schedule with limited impact to OEE.
• Perform scheduled Preventative Maintenance tasks as outlined by the plant PM program.
• Manage preventative maintenance tasks in Computerized Maintenance Management Software, including generating work orders.
• Proactively address machine inefficiencies during preventative maintenance.
• Ensure equipment is clean and in ‘showroom condition’ after preventative maintenance.
• Continually evaluate equipment for improvement areas and tag components or parts needing repair, replacement, or improvement.
• Ensure production equipment is in safe and efficient operation after each changeover.
• Record parts removed from inventory on appropriate documentation and in Computerized Maintenance Management Software to maintain sufficient parts inventory.
• Notify Maintenance Manager when parts inventory becomes low or reaches a reorder point.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED equivalent.
• Successfully complete entrance examinations and interviews.
• Possess a sense of urgency, accountability, business ethics, professionalism, self-motivation, and a focus to improve the business.
• May be required to act as Person In Charge in the absence of a member of management.

Abilities

• Ability to come to work promptly and regularly.
• Ability to take direction and work well with others.
• Ability to work under the stress of deadlines.
• Ability to concentrate and perform accurately.
• Ability to react to change productively and handle other tasks as assigned.

Physical Activity

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and equipment using feet, legs, hands, and arms. Requires good body agility.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Requires full use of lower extremities and back muscles.
• Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving over long distances to accomplish tasks.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including detailed or important spoken instructions.
• Hearing: Perceiving sounds at no less than 40 dB at 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements of the arms, hands, and/or fingers.
• Vision: Capable of preparing and analyzing data and figures, and seeing small defects at close distances.
• Exertion: Medium Work – Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Environmental Working Conditions

• Subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions.
• May be subject to extreme heat (temperatures above 100°F for periods of more than one hour).
• Subject to noise.
• Subject to vibrations (oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body).
• Exposed to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, chemicals, etc.
• May be subject to atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• Subject to oils (air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids).

Pay

$21.15 - $31.10 per hour