Production Operator I

Our Production Operator I is responsible for the transferring, bulk loading and packaging of finished products. We are hiring for 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.