Night Shift Feed Mixer

Description

Job Title: Feed Mixer

Hours/Week: 40 hours per week with more hours required as needed

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Feed Operations Supervisor

Job Objective

The Feed Mixer Operator is responsible for operating and maintaining equipment to mix and prepare feed and related products for livestock, ensuring proper ingredient blending, monitoring machinery, and adhering to safety and quality standards. This position will perform tasks related to feed production including quality control, ingredient and feed processing, manufacturing and load out, ingredient receiving and storage, equipment maintenance, and general housekeeping.

The incumbent will be expected to assist other locations and departments as assigned by management. Will communicate availability regularly and assist with projects as needed.

Incumbent maintains efficiency in a manner that will optimize the cooperative’s market share and savings, improve the cooperative’s efficiency, help achieve the cooperative’s mission and goals, and result in outstanding customer service.

This position will maintain a positive attitude that promotes teamwork within the location, as well as within the cooperative and upholds a favorable image of Five Star Cooperative at all times.

Qualifications

Education: High school diploma or equivalent

Job Related Skills: Strong written and verbal communications skills necessary

Computer Skills: Basic computer, email and data entry skills

Communication Skills: Fluent reading, writing, and speaking the English language

License, Certificate or Registration: Valid driver’s license

Basic Skills: Speaking, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Listening, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management

Job Summary And Primary Duties

• Organizes daily schedule of required local mix to expedite custom mixing and grinding
• Operates machinery used in the feed mixing and production process
• Dumps bags or presses buttons on control panel to transfer individual ingredients from separate bins to batch scale hopper until specified weight of each ingredient is obtained. Weighs additives like minerals and vitamins and dumps them into the hopper. Starts machine to mix ingredients, and starts elevator conveyors to transfer feed to storage tank
• Maintains quality of mixes above standards set by Five Star and the local mixing program
• Accounts for each mix or other service provided by writing job, sales, or transfer tickets to ensure accurate inventory control
• Reports inventory items which should be placed on order
• Prepare and file department records as needed
• Cleans and lubricates equipment, maintains equipment on a regular schedule to avoid breakdowns and anticipates and plans for major overhauls requiring shutdowns
• Observes equipment operations for malfunctions
• Collects samples of ingredients and/or finished product for laboratory testing
• Understands and ensures compliance with all transportation, environmental, and feed production regulations and policies
• Adhere to all laws and company policies associated with safety, health and environmental practices. Take immediate and appropriate actions to remedy hazards as they are identified. Help provide solutions to safety, health and environmental challenges.
• Works directly with customers, developing excellent customer relations
• Enforce and abide by all cooperative policies
• Enforce and uphold the cooperative’s credit policy
• Good communication with all employees and customers
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Maintenance & Safety

• Observe OSHA, state, and federal safety regulations
• Maintains company compliance, enters any compliance data and completes monthly preventative maintenance schedules.
• Operates trucks and equipment safely
• Receives no OSHA, state, or federal citations
• Receives no valid customer complaints concerning driving
• Maintains clean and neat facilities
  
  

Service And Skills

• Excellent customer service required – Applicant must be neat and approachable
• Handles customer complaints smoothly – notifies supervisor of any problems and strives to solve any problems quickly, either personally or through communication with the supervisor.
• Excellent telephone skills – applicant must promptly and courteously answer the phone
• Requires acute attention to detail
• Requires making decisions that affect customers, other employees, Five Star Coop’s financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization
• Commitment to excellence and high standards
• Actively work to increase personal skills and knowledge
• Attend product, merchandising, safety, and cooperative meetings as requested
  
  

Work Context For The Essential Functions Of The Job

• Requires face-to-face and telephone communication with individuals, customers, or teams daily
• Opportunity to make decisions without supervision,
• Requires making decisions that impact the results of co-workers, clients or the company,
• Requires being exact or highly accurate,
• Requires repeating the same physical activities or mental activities over and over,
• Requires meeting strict deadlines daily to ensure customer service when unloading and product delivery deadlines.
• Requires work with others in a group or team,
• Requires work with external customers or the public,
• Includes responsibility for work outcomes and results,
• Includes responsibility for the health and safety of others,
• Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment,
  
  

Other Duties

• Must be able to meet physical requirements of the position, including prolonged periods of standing, working in confined spaces and elevated heights, bending, kneeling, climbing stairs and ladders.
• Ability to deal effectively with a diversity of individuals at all organizational levels
• Good judgment with the ability to make timely and sound decisions
• Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm
• Ability to work independently and as a team player
• Must be able to climb stairs, reach above, below, and at shoulder level.
• Willingness to work from multiple locations within the cooperative
  
  

Work Conditions and Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job is performed indoors or outdoors and will have exposure to external elements including: weather extremes of Northern Iowa, heights, confined spaces, and other variable and unique environments. Employee will have exposure to dust from feed, grain, or fertilizer products.

Requirements

Physical Abilities

• Far Vision—The ability to see details at a distance.
• Reaction Time—The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
• Static Strength—The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
• Response Orientation—The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
• Spatial Orientation—The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
• Near Vision—The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Depth Perception—The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or further away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
• Extent Flexibility—The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Multi-limb Coordination—The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
• Manual Dexterity—The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble or move objects