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Plant Trainer
Job Description – April 2025
Supervisor’s Title: GPS Leader
Department: Production
Location: Twin Falls Plant
Exempt Status: Hourly
Job Summary
Lead the training program for the Twin Falls Plant.
Essential Functions
- Audit and track training system performances
- Coach operators on correct procedures
- Coach operators on correct food safety, quality, regulatory, and employee safety practices
- Perform Root Cause investigation and follow through for training-related problems
- Conduct training of staff and new hires
- Assign and report on Alchemy training completion
- Assist plant management in projects as assigned
- Ensure the plant meets, and employees follow, current GMP and SQF standards
- Present training to the operations group on a regular basis
- Work in accordance with Glanbia's core values
- Create, modify, and train out documents including SOPs, SWIs, and OPLs
- Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act which are applicable to his/her own actions and conduct.
- Complies with all applicable food safety regulations and mandates (Safe Quality Foods, Food and Drug Admin, Pasteurized Milk Ordinance)
- Perform other duties as assigned
Additional Functions
- Regular and timely attendance is required. Hours will be primarily M-F days. Night, weekend, and overtime work will occasionally be required.
Qualifications
- Requires prior experience and knowledge of training in a dairy or food processing facility
- Demonstrated technical writing ability
- Desire to grow with the company
- Willingness to present training in front of groups of coworkers
- Effective communicator through excellent people and leadership skills
- Willingness to work night shifts and weekends
- Experience with Microsoft Office programs including Word and Excel.
- Ability to operate (or learn to operate) necessary equipment
- Excellent record required in safety, attendance, and punctuality
- Ability to stand and walk the entire shift if needed
- Ability to read and write instructions in English
- Knowledge of the use of software for food processing equipment, such as ignition
Typical Physical Activity
Physical Demands
The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee and the work environment characteristics are 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.
Physical Requirements
- Frequently (25-50%) stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and reach with hands and arms. Work in a hot, humid environment.
- Occasionally (15-30%), lift and/or move 26 to 60 lbs, and use hands to connect pipes and valves.
- Occasionally (0-25%) sit, operate a computer
- Specific vision requirements for this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point); depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Typical Environmental Conditions
- May be exposed to ___85 ______ noise levels in which hearing protection will be needed.
- Temperature conditions of working areas range from 40 to 110 degrees
Disclaimer
Must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation efficiently and accurately without causing a significant safety threat to oneself or others. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required of all personnel so classified.
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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