What are the responsibilities and job description for the Brine Batch Maker - Seasonal to Potential Full-Time position at Hausbeck Pickle Company?
Brine Batch Maker
Hausbeck Pickle Company’s mission is to produce & deliver the highest quality food products with enthusiasm & integrity while striving for win-win partnerships with our customers and suppliers.
Hausbeck Pickle Company is now an employee-owned company (ESOP). While Hausbeck Pickle Company has always been a family-oriented environment, establishing an ESOP is a way to honor employees for their stellar work and empower and reward them through shared equity for striving towards an even higher goal.
Please consider joining a team whose vision is to share the FUN, FLAVOR & FREEDOM of our food products with everyone, making the world a tastier place!
Job Summary
The Brine Batch Maker is responsible for making brine for our production lines within customer specifications. Re-stocking the formulation room with ingredients. Cleaning of formulation tanks and room. Brine batch documentation in PLEX and on paper (double verification needed). Emulsion mixing in PLEX and physically. Vinegar tank changes physically and in PLEX. Salt silo changes physically and in PLEX. Brine titration to assure customer specifications. Relish formulation when needed.
Seasonal position with potential for full-time status based on production needs.
Schedule: 2nd Shift, 2pm – 11pm. Schedule may flex with production needs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Follow all plant policies and practices to ensure safety, quality, and cost objectives are met.
- Operate a variety of mixing/blending equipment as needed.
- Perform various quality checks and clean and change-over of equipment.
- Make brine for production lines with the correct salt levels (get salt level from lead lab tech when running pickles).
- Verify brine formulation by titration check.
- Maintain an accurate inventory through activities such as: proper reporting of material usage, minimizing wastes, and ensuring that measuring devices are properly calibrated.
- Maintain accurate ingredient levels in Plex to what is physically on hand, true up, scrap as needed
- Send brine to appropriate production lines and set brine levels according to customer specifications prior to line start up.
- Make up lixate tubs for sort off pickles as needed.
- Re-stock formulation room for next shift, pre-batch brine.
- Clean formulation tanks, briner systems and room.
- Change vinegar tanks, and salt silo’s as needed.
- Clean out vinegar and salt silo filters
- Check incoming vinegar acid levels
- Communicate to quality, production supervisor and team lead.
- Formulate relish when needed.
- Create SDS labels as needed.
Additional Responsibilities
Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- 1 years production experience required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Strong, logical decision making skills.
- Experience with time management and multitasking.
- Exhibit sense of ownership and accountability.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong math skills; basic calculations to include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, basic percent’s and fractions.
- Demonstrated comfort with data entry and basic computer skills.
- Should have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to efficiently coordinate work with co-workers and take directions from superiors.
- Awareness of the safety and official procedures for handling goods and supplies.
- Ability to effectively manage time and meet set targets and deadlines.
- PLEX and iPad literate.
- Ability to multitask.
- Ability to navigate through our SDS booklets and make SDS labels.
- Ability to change vinegar tanks and salt silos physically and in PLEX.
- Great housekeeping skills.
Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:
- Provide necessary papers allowing holder to work legally in the United States.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Prolonged periods of walking/moving around, standing/remaining stationary, bending and stooping/kneeling.
- Lift up to 50 on a routine basis.
- Use close vision and ability to focus on computer screens and documents; distance vision; peripheral vison; depth perception; color vision.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:
Hausbeck Pickle Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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