Utility Worker - Fryer

About The Role

The Utility Worker – Fryer supports Prime, Specialty, and Batter production lines by relieving operators, performing sanitation duties, assisting with equipment changeovers, and managing waste totes. The role also maintains lab equipment, follows safety and quality protocols, and requires certification in multiple operator positions, forklift operation, and chemical handling. Moderate skill, initiative, care for equipment safety, and independence are essential for this position.

Responsibilities

• Monitors production areas and assists operators during breaks or changeovers, including batter handling and equipment setup.
• Performs daily sanitation tasks, maintains cleanliness, and participates in factory clean-ups.
• Manages waste totes by transporting, cleaning, inserting liners, and entering data.
• Maintains lab equipment, completes forklift checklists, and supports quality process initiatives.
• Promotes and adheres to company safety regulations while keeping the work area neat and orderly.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

This role works in a manufacturing environment with potential exposure to loud noises, strong odors, temperature fluctuations, moving machinery, wet or humid conditions, hazardous chemicals, high or confined areas, extreme temperatures, and vibration throughout various facility areas.

This role also regularly engages in prolonged standing, walking, communicating, and sensory tasks throughout each shift, while frequently handling objects, climbing, balancing, and performing various physical movements such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling as part of job duties. The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus is required.

Schedule

B Crew/AM Shift (6AM-6PM) on a 2-2-3 schedule.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Experience working in manufacturing and/or food manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Ability to obtain forklift certification required.
• Maintains a continuous learning mindset and adapts quickly to new equipment, processes, and roles.
• Demonstrates strong technical ability with a digital-first approach, embracing new technologies and accurately entering data.
• Communicates clearly with all levels of the organization, follows instructions (written/oral/diagram form), and completes necessary documentation independently in English.
• Pays close attention to detail, prioritizing product quality, safety, and accurate record-keeping.
• Physically capable of meeting job requirements and consistently brings a positive, team-focused attitude to work.
• Demonstrates adaptability, technical proficiency, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills while working independently or collaboratively to ensure effective and logical decision-making in diverse situations.
• Demonstrates the physical capability to bend frequently and lift heavy objects (up to 65 pounds), alongside proficiency in safely operating Powered Industrial Vehicles to support workplace operations.

Pay

Starting at 26.06 USD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate
• Insurance day ONE of employment
• 401k match up to 6%
• PTO, company holidays, wellness days
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Set schedule/overtime allowances
• Education reimbursement
• Health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug)
• Retirement savings benefits
• Leave support, including medical, family and bereavement
• Company-supported volunteering time
• Mental health resources