Operator - Tote Room 1st Shift

Responsibilities

• Affirms personal responsibility for ensuring a safe and healthy workplace for all.
• Adheres to all safety policies and procedures and integrates safety and health into all jobs and tasks.
• Ensures regulatory compliance.
• Operates, cleans, and maintains extended run fillers to ensure finished products meet customer, MFI, and USDA specifications.
• Reports to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Set up, runs, cleans, conducts preventive maintenance (PM), troubleshoots extended run fillers, such as Custom Tote/Pail Filler and Pail Filler, Scholle Tote Filler.
• Fulfills all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for production and sanitation.
• Accurately maintains all required documentation in real time.
• Proactively plans and leads changeover activities for fillers and date coding, ensuring supervisors are informed of necessary mechanics, materials, and communications.
• Alerts the supervisor when mechanical problems occur.
• Ensures Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and sanitation practices are maintained and leads all related room activities.
• Maintains a safe work environment.
• Maintains line OEE targets and material shrinkage targets.
• Communicates actively with ESL pasteurizer operators to ensure efficient operation.
• Engages in continuous improvement efforts.
• Adheres to safe work practices and reports to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect personnel safety.
• Adheres to all safety policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience operating machinery and handling GMP’s and product specifications.
• SPC (weight control) ability.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to communicate and get along with other employees.
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate equipment controls.
• Mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.