Production Team Member - 3rd Shift

Get in on the ground floor of our new freeze-dry manufacturing facility! Grow your career into 2025 as Thrive Freeze Dry expands into the largest freeze-dry manufacturer in the world.

Conveniently located in Oak Creek, WI, we are hiring immediately for a full-time Production Team Member position.

• Position: Production Team Member
• Location: Ryan Rd & I-94, Oak Creek, WI
  • Shift: 3^rd Shift – 6pm – 6am
  • Schedule: D – Every Other Wed, Th, Fr, Sa
• Starting Pay: $20/hr
• Reports to: Production Supervisor

About Thrive Freeze Dry:

Thrive Foods is a leader in the freeze-dried food industry. As the largest freeze-dried food provider in the United States, Thrive Foods is leading trends in healthy snacking, good for you ingredients and clean label products in growing human food, probiotics, and pet food segments. As a result, Thrive Foods maintains a blue-chip customer list of food service companies, natural food retailers, and well-known brands.  

As our company grows so do our dreams.  We are team-oriented and committed to safety and food quality and our values are simple. Leading with integrity means we treat people well.   In chasing big goals it’s important to do what matters most in order to win together, learning and growing as we do.

Job Summary:

The Production Team Member plays a vital role in getting our product to our customers.  The ideal candidate is one who is committed to food safety and quality, looks for improvement and is ready to roll up their sleeves with us.

A Production Team Member will assist in the production of freeze-dried consumable products.  This role requires the ability to prepare freeze dried product for finished goods completion which requires lifting, pushing, pulling, and transporting of goods.  Thorough understanding of safe food practices and the ability to follow direction is vital.  This role is cross trained between the stages of freeze-dried goods, to processing and sorting, to packaging.   

Essential Duties:

• Receiving, inspecting, milling, packing, and distributing the product 
• Adhere to standard work methods and practice safe work habits to ensure production is as efficient and safe as possible
• Pass cleaning tests and complete all cleaning requirements set forth by the quality assurance department and other third-party inspections 
• Great care is taken to clean the rooms, tools, and equipment used during all operations
• The ability to read instructions and/or labels efficiently, attach labels and tags to products and packages, communicate effectively and frequent lifting of raw products in preparation for processing
• Transport raw and processed materials to designated areas, using a pallet jack
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Environment:

The job is performed under frequent temperature variations and in a food manufacturing production environment and unrestricted visual and audio abilities are required for the safety of all employees as is the ability to lift to 40 lbs. Personal protective equipment is required and provided by Thrive Freeze Dry.

Benefits:

We offer a full range of benefits for today, tomorrow and beyond!

Health Insurance: Medical (UMR/United Healthcare Network), Dental (Sunlife), Vision (VSP) (1^st of the month after 30 days of employment)

Supplementary Insurance: Company paid life, short and long term disability insurances

Retirement: 401k w/ employer match, up to 4% annual salary

Other Benefits: Safety shoe program, Tuition reimbursement, Employee referral bonus

Thrive Freeze Dry is an Equal Opportunity Employer