Job Details
Overview:
POSITION SUMMARY:
Lead production associates to properly operate equipment from a safety, quality, and efficient perspective, while maintaining the cleanliness of all equipment.
Responsibilities:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance.
- Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility.
- Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualification.
- Must perform lockout tagout as required for qualification.
- Ensure daily department start-up and shut-down of equipment and processes.
- Inspects and ensures all machinery is operational and clean.
- Must ensure proper machine operations and standards by working with operators and maintenance in troubleshooting.
- Must ensure proper communication with the maintenance team and provide operational support for maintenance team.
- Must have an understanding of the PRISM system to ensure proper pallet tracking and production inventory.
- Must work with team members to maintain standard changeovers while maintaining standard line efficiencies.
- Must be able to communicate and plan ahead by coordinating production schedule in conjunction with the Supervisor to increase production outputs.
- Must be able to indentify proper product flow from hold tanks thru flow panels to production machines.
- Provides relief break to associates as needed.
- Assists in compounding responsibilities for new product development.
- Assist in training new associates.
- Collection, review, and submittal of production paperwork.
- Must be able to disassemble production equipment: clean, rinse and sanitize all product contact machinery utilizing proper cleaning utensils, chemicals, and COP (Clean Out of Place) process.
- Must be able to reassemble production equipment: clean, rinse, and sanitize all product contact machinery utilizing proper cleaning utensils, chemicals, and CIP (Clean In Place) process.
- Document completed work as required by the supervisor.
- Compliance with all other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead liquid products operations.
PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES:
- Maintain flow of product through machine.
- Remove unusable product from machine, conveyors, boxes or floor.
- Safely hose down machines or conveyors.
- Change film rolls.
- Lift cases of product.
- Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.
- Stand/walk 7 or more hours per day.
- Constantly reach, bend, twist/turn, grip/grasp, and talk/hear.
- Constantly use eye/hand coordination.
- Constantly lift up to 5 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 75 feet.
- Constantly lift up to 25 lbs from floor to shoulder height and carry 20 feet.
- Constantly lift up to 50 lbs from floor to shoulder height.
- Frequently kneel, crawl, squat, and climb (stairs including 12-16 steps).
- Frequently use handling/fingering and taste/smell.
- Frequently lift up to 100 lbs from floor to waist height and carry 20 feet.
- Occasionally carry up to 50 lbs up steps.
- Push film cart requiring 12 lbs of force 50 feet.
- Pull open cup denester requiring 39 lbs of force.
- Push combo lid, hand truck and pallets of product requiring 25 lbs of force 50 feet.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.
ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS:
- Constantly work in damp, wet, humid and slippery environments.
- Constantly work in high places.
- Constantly work near moving equipment with fumes or airborne debris.
- Constantly work in extreme heat/cold.
- Constantly work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection.
- Occasionally work with toxic or caustic chemicals.
MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE
- Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform or smock.
- Cut resistant gloves.
- Nitrile gloves, plastic apron, and plastic sleeves.
- All liquid products production equipment.
- Food safety knife and small hand tools.
- Manual and electric pallet jack.
- Lockout locks and tags.
Qualifications:
REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Knowledge of departmental operational positions and procedures.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one small group situations to customers, clients, and other team members of the organization.
- Ability to use effective problem solving skills.
- Ability to review and correct production paperwork.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
- Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in accordance with production paperwork.
- Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.