Retort Operator (Assistant) - Food Manufacturing - 1st Shift

About the role

Summer Garden Food Manufacturing is a family-owned business that offers a safe, clean, and friendly work environment for its staff. The company regularly organizes fun events, lunches, rewards, and other incentives to show appreciation to its dedicated employees.

Responsibilities

• Safely and properly changeover and operate any equipment located in the immediate retort work area.
• Properly and thoroughly clean and sanitize the immediate work area.
• Safely load and unload cages in and out of each retort.
• Perform operator level adjustments and preventative maintenance on equipment located in the immediate work area.
• Successfully complete all paperwork and touch screen entries.
• Verify all necessary retort and temperature charting.
• Participate in the SGFM training program which includes training all employees in your immediate work area.
• Build a team environment within the immediate work area and throughout the SGFM organization.
• Follow safety regulations and procedures required by SGFM/Quality/SQF/GMP’s/OSHA regulations/Preventative Controls.
• Operate a forklift and Pallet Jack as required to move pallets around and off the lines.
• (In house certification will be provided)
• Able to work under pressure while multi-tasking.
• All other necessary duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Requirements

• Necessary to perform this job function: High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Frequent lifting of material up to and including 50 pounds.
• Able to read and write English fluently.
• Basic mathematic and reading skills.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, climb stairs, stoop, bend and/or crouch.
• Push/pull; lift up to 50 pounds; use of hands and fingers to operate machinery/equipment and all manual and electronic equipment in area of responsibility.
• Exposure to wet and humid conditions and fluctuations in ambient temperature (seasonal).
• Squatting, kneeling, ability to reach above and at shoulder height.
• Able to wear a dust mask, and perform Confined Entry using LOTO program.
• Exposure to toxic and corrosive chemicals.
• Ability to use close and distance vision, as well as color and peripheral vision with or without correction.
• Must be able to visually detect obstacles and potential dangers in a fast-paced production environment involving high speed equipment and powered industrial lift equipment.
• Ability to hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.
• Exposure to noise levels from pumps, machinery, forklift traffic, bottle lines and exhaust fans.