Production Operator I North

Our Production Operator I is responsible for the packaging of finished products.

Production Operator I Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding and following all personnel and equipment safety policies, all GMP, HACCP, Sanitation, and Business Unit policies and procedures.
• Understand written customer specifications and mill flour to meet customer specifications.
• Safe and efficient operation of all transferring equipment and systems.
• Lockout, open, unstack, repair, and restack sifters.
• Responsible for sanitation efforts such as recording sanitation duties, performing sanitation duties, and completing work orders assigned to them.
• Interact with scheduler, elevator, blender, quality team, maintenance, and packer to communicate workflow, milling schedule, and equipment issues.
• Required to assist with the upkeep and quality of bins and silos.
• Responsible for consistently conducting visual inspections of the FPZ transfer sifter.
• Set up and monitor finished package weights to ensure that bags conform to specifications.
• Set up the packer scale weights prior to a run.
• Check the precision of the check scale prior to the start of the run.
• Continually check the finished package weights throughout the run.
• Ensure that the finished product is bagged, sealed, and palletized in a neat, clean, and orderly fashion on structurally sound pallets.
• Pull samples of products, both prior to packaging, and throughout the run, and run analysis on samples on lab equipment.
• Perform the metal detector checks on a scheduled basis set by the quality department and notify supervisor of any substandard conditions.
• Pull samples prior to the run (or at the startup of packaging) to help ensure conformity to specifications.
• For government contracts, one sample will be taken per pallet, for weight and lab testing.
• Keep bags available and ready to be used, including bags labeled for special customers.
• Attach labels to bags as necessary.
• Clean and sanitize all packing and loading areas (including hopper area above packers).
• Feed any product that did not meet specifications back into the system to rework.
• Assist in the training of new and existing personnel in any packaging functions/positions
• Drive forklifts to ensure production lines have necessary materials
• Other duties as assigned.