Utility Worker - Operations (Process)

About The Role

The Utility Worker - Operations is responsible for general cleanup tasks within the processing department, ensuring a sanitary and organized work environment. Additionally, the role provides relief for specialized utilities, assisting in various operational functions as needed to maintain efficient workflow.

Responsibilities

Your day-to-day may consist of:

• Supports and relieves specialized utility and starch/ingredient attendants as needed.
• Transports and processes waste totes, including cleaning, inserting new liners, and entering waste information into systems.
• Maintains a clean, neat, and orderly work environment, participating in factory clean-ups.
• Adheres to and promotes company safety regulations, requiring chemical training and forklift certification.
• Performs assigned duties with moderate mental and manual skills, exercising care to prevent injuries and equipment damage.

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

D Crew/PM Shift (6PM-6AM) on a 2-2-3 schedule, shift differential offered.

Requirements

• 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.

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