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Production Machine Operator

General Mills and Careers
Milwaukee, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 12/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/18/2026
Job Description:
General Mills, Inc. manufactures some of the most beloved foods in the world, including Cheerios and Lucky Charms, Nature Valley granola bars, and Totino's pizza rolls. Blue Buffalo became part of General Mills in 2018, so even your pets love us too. We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together.

Check out why General Mills Manufacturing is the place to grow a career:

Production Machine Operator – Milwaukee, WI:

As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for supporting production packaging and processing operations, sanitation, and participation in startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment.


Current Shift Openings:


2nd Shift (3:00 PM – 11:00 PM)
    • 2–2–3 Schedule: Work 2 days, off 2 days, work 3 days, and repeat.
    • Days off alternate every other weekend.

12-Hour Night Crew:
7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
    • 12–2 Schedule: Work for 12 days in a row, followed by 2 days off.
    • Days off occur every other weekend.
Overtime: Every other weekend, with potential for up to 4 additional hours before or after your scheduled shift

Additional Shift Schedules:

3rd Shift: 11:00 PM – 7:00 AM
    • 2–2–3 Schedule: Work 2 days, off 2 days, work 3 days, and repeat.
      • Days off alternate every other weekend.

Plant Operations:
Our facility runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Flexibility: Must be willing and able to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Pay:
  • $27.39 per hour starting.
  • Pay for skill program for higher pay rates up to $29.40 per hour

Benefits:
  • 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid holidays
  • Great paid time off benefits
  • 401(k) match
  • Health Insurance- Including medical, dental and life
  • And much more!

About our Location:
Our Milwaukee manufacturing cite is located in a big city, with big city amenities, but with a lower cost than most. Our site was originally owned by the Gardetto family, who created Gardetto’s by using any broken breadsticks leftover in their plant combined with seasonings! If you ask what some of the things that employees value most at Milwaukee, you will hear about our employee appreciation events, family events, and all employee sporting events and watch events. We have the Chex Club that puts on events once a month for employees. At General Mills, we encourage growth for our employees. At our site, you will find that we have a lot of opportunities for job growth.

Our Products:
Gardettos, Bugels, Chex Mix, Muddy Buddys

What your day will look like:
  • Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
  • Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
  • Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
  • CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
  • Diagnosing and troubleshooting mechanical or other issues with equipment and partner with maintenance staff and/or additional resources when necessary to resolve issues effectively
  • Addressing operational issues in a timely manner and communicating results to team leader
  • Coordinating and performing basic preventative maintenance on equipment with a focus on defect identification and breakdown elimination
  • Removing and replacing motors, starters, belts, bearings, chains, and other manufacturing parts
  • Entering Work Orders for any defects you identify
  • Performing centerline checks each shift to ensure equipment is running per recommendations
  • Calibrating processing and packaging systems daily to meet required specifications
  • Participating in startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment
  • Assisting other packaging machine operators to set up packaging machine, change film, and generate problem solving
What you have to offer:
  • Minimum of a high school diploma or GED
  • 2 years of experience in a manufacturing/production environment is required
Physical requirements:
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
  • Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
  • Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
  • Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net and gloves when required
  • Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
  • Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
  • Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
  • Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment

Salary : $27 - $29

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