POSITION SUMMARY:

Lead production associates to properly operate equipment from a safety, quality, and efficient perspective, while maintaining the cleanliness of all equipment.

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.

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.