Our Production Operator I is responsible for the transferring, bulk loading and packaging of finished products. We are hiring for 7am - 7pm and 7pm - 7am. The days of the week will rotate allowing 2 weekends off per week.

 

• Responsible for understanding and following all personnel and equipment safety policies, all GMP, HACCP, Sanitation, and Business Unit policies and procedures.


• Understand written customer specifications and mill flour to meet customer specifications.


• Safe and efficient operation of all transferring equipment and systems.


• Sample and analyze milled flour.


• Analyze flour with lab instruments. Safely operate lab analytical instruments.


• Lockout, open, unstack, repair, and restack sifters.


• Measure levels of flour and feed in storage bins with tape measure.


• Responsible for sanitation efforts such as recording sanitation duties, performing sanitation duties, and completing work orders assigned to them.


• Interact with scheduler, elevator, blender, quality team, maintenance, and packer to communicate workflow, milling schedule, and equipment issues.


• Monitor flour additives, ingredients, and other supplies.


• Required to assist with the upkeep and quality of bins and silos.


• Responsible for consistently conducting visual inspections of the FPZ transfer sifter.


• Set up and monitor finished package weights to ensure that bags conform to specifications.


• Set up the packer scale weights prior to a run.


• Check the precision of the check scale prior to the start of the run.


• Continually check the finished package weights throughout the run.


• Ensure that the finished product is bagged, sealed, and palletized in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion on structurally sound pallets.


• Pull samples of product, both prior to packaging, and throughout the run, and run analysis on samples on equipment located in mill control room.


• Perform the metal detector checks on a scheduled basis set by the quality department and notify supervisor of any substandard conditions.


• Pull samples prior to the run (or at the startup of packaging) to help ensure conformity to specifications.       


• Samples pulled during a run will normally be one sample per grade, once conformity is verified.


• For government contracts, one sample will be taken per pallet, for weight and lab testing.


• Keep bags available and ready to be used, including bags labeled for special customers.


• Attach labels to bags as necessary.


• Clean and sanitize all packing and loading areas (including hopper area above packers).


• Feed any product that did not meet specifications back into the system to rework.


• Assist in the training of new and existing personnel in any packaging functions/positions.