Process Controller Ready To Cook - 2nd Shift

At Butterball, we exist to help people pass love on. As the most recognized name in turkey, the brand represents more than 60 years of cherished memories, providing quality, great tasting products that make meals something to celebrate every day. We proudly believe that life at Butterball means having a team who supports you, having the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, and making an impact on the health of others daily.

Responsibilities

• Monitors direct or indirect processes in the production line, ensuring products are correctly packed, labeled, and prepared for shipment.
• Troubleshoots any issues to ensure production maintains high standards of quality, safety, and efficiency.
• Escalates deviations from product specifications in a timely manner.
• Ensures all products meet company quality standards.
• Inspects items for defects, inconsistencies, packaging errors, etc.
• Monitors quality indicators and works closely with quality assurance to maintain compliance and product specifications and standards.
• Identifies and quickly resolves any issues in the process, including machinery breakdowns, material shortages, or process inefficiencies.
• Ensures all processes comply with all quality specifications.
• Monitors adherence to safety protocols and reports any potential issues.
• Maintains records of daily activities, performance metrics, and any issues that arise.
• Works closely across multiple teams to maintain process continuity and ensure seamless operations with timely product delivery.
• Monitors various processes tracking, collecting data, and/or documenting as needed.
• Provides reports to inform opportunities.
• Works closely with quality assurance teams to monitor for and document process deviations for official reporting.
• Helps provide input on process improvements.

Requirements

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.

Skills

Butterball Core Competencies

• Safety First: We put safety first. The health, safety, and well-being of our people, products, and turkeys is everyone's responsibility and everyone's job.
• Integrity: We trust each other to do the right thing. We act with integrity and gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, respect, and authenticity.
• Stewardship: We take care of what matters. We are accountable to our commitments and take responsibility for the well-being of our teams, our quality, our customers, our business, our brand, and our communities. We are always answerable for our actions and those we lead.
• Enthusiastic Attitudes: We create a climate where everyone feels they belong and can be engaged, every day. Where our people are enthusiastic and motivated to do their best and work together to make great things happen.
• Continuous Improvement: We are committed to continuous improvement. We challenge ourselves and our company to constantly learn, develop, grow, improve, and innovate.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Working knowledge of production machinery and/or processes.
• Good learning agility.
• Organization, time-management, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills with the ability to ensure timeliness of all quality checks.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve routine problems and equipment/process issues using established standards.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to maintain quality and safety standards.
• Good communication and teamwork skills with the ability to effectively interact across multiple teams.
• Ability to be flexible and resourceful in response to changing priorities and needs.
• Basic computer skills for data entry and reporting.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in manufacturing or production environment, preferably in process control.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard.
• Occasionally lift up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, hear, reach, bend, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate equipment, computer, telephone, keyboard.
• Occasionally climb and lift up to or about 50 pounds.

Working Conditions

• Work will be performed in a variety of conditions including a climate-controlled office environment(s) and in a manufacturing plant environment with varying conditions, such as cold areas, wet areas, warm areas, chemicals, and other site conditions.
• This position requires the individual to wear and work in personal protective equipment while in the manufacturing environment.
• The noise level of the office environment is usually moderate; the noise level in the manufacturing environment may exceed 85 DBA and require hearing protection.
• Occasional travel may be required.