What are the responsibilities and job description for the Night Shift Weigher position at Somafina?
Position Description: Precise, safe, hygienic, & standardized weighing of product according to
recipe.
Essential responsibilities:
• Operates scales and scale software systems to ensure that ingredient quantities are
processed per assigned Part, Lot, and ID numbers.
• Inspects materials for any foreign objects that may adulterate the batch.
• Records all required information as prompted by the scale systems and other physical
documents.
• Reports in writing reasonable justification for low product yields.
• Prepares rooms, equipment, and tools to process products to standards.
• Keeps cleaning tools and sanitation substances outside the weighing rooms and maintains
their cleanliness and organization.
Additional Responsibilities:
• Must contribute to department team incentive goals. Team incentive goals and rewards
are based on productivity, quantity, quality of work, and on the accuracy to which the job
and/or processes are completed.
• Support of and involvement in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures,
programs, and activities.
• Maintain a clean and orderly work area.
• Other duties as assigned.
Education Requirements:
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related
experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Competencies/skill Qualifications:
• Ability to speak, write, read, and comprehend in the English language.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole
numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Basic computer skills are necessary.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved
instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized
situations.
Physical Requirements:
• While performing duties, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk; reach with
hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear.
• The employee must exert up to 90 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 40 lbs. of force
frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include near acuity, far acuity,
accommodation, color vision, and field of vision.
Character Requirements:
• Friendly
• Approachable
• Proactive
• Honest
• Responsible
• Punctual
• Team worker
