3rd Shift Utility Operator

Description: Responsible for the overall handling of final products in packing area, operates box maker, supporting kitchen and bagger operators. This role covers breaks and ensures all product meets customer specifications.

Department: Production

Reports To: Production Manager

Education and Experience: High School Diploma/ GED preferred

Work Hours: 2nd Shift: 3:00 PM - 11:20 PM

Work Environment: This job operates in a food production and warehouse setting. The floor surface is concrete. The noise level is moderate with no vibration. Material movement takes place throughout the facility.

Core Responsibilities:

• Follows Company, GMP and Safety policies to ensure compliance with the HACCP program, AIB and other regulatory requirements.
• Follows all food safety principles and legal requirements.
• Performs all product handling activities in a packaging work-cell (i.e. stacking, counting, packaging, sealing, put bags in trays or boxes).
• Verifies code dates, sealing, product weight, and product appearance, is within specified parameters and conform to clients' expectations.
• Ensures trays, pallets and/or boxes are within standards.
• Verifies equipment is in good working condition; communicates to management any deficiencies noted.
• Performs visual inspection of product ensuring quality is acceptable.
• May assist in the training of new personnel.
• Oversees bagging machine operation for efficiency
• Maintain kitchen equipment including making adjustments to raw products and seasoner equipment
• Coordinate with packing/stacking team for break relief
• Maintain order and cleanliness in packaging and kitchen areas
• Integrity in accuracy in documentation
• Follow OSHA Safety Regulation and Safety Rules.
Report safety concerns to management or Safety Committee

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds and work on their feet, while using tools to perform repetitive actions
• Hearing and speaking to exchange information.
• Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling moderately heavy objects as assigned by position.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate bagging equipment.
• Reaching overhead, above shoulders and horizontally.
• Bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching.
• Seeing to monitor food quality and quantity.
• The ability to stand and walk for an entirety of a shift.

Competencies:

• Has interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy
• Uses proper lifting techniques
• Sensory Evaluation Knowledge
• Accurate Record Keeping Abilities
• General Maintenance Aptitude
• Oral and written communication skills