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Candy Production Associate
$19–$27 per hour | Full-Time | 40 hours per week | Fort Worth, TX
Lone Star Health & Wellness is looking for a dependable Candy Production Associate to join our small manufacturing team.
This is a hands-on position where you will learn how specialty confectionery products are made from start to finish. You’ll work with commercial cooking and mixing equipment, digital scales, molds, production machinery, and packaging equipment.
Previous candy-making experience is not required. We are willing to train the right person.
We are looking for someone who enjoys working with their hands, is comfortable with numbers and measurements, learns quickly, and takes pride in doing things correctly.
What You’ll Do
- Weigh and measure ingredients accurately
- Follow written recipes, formulas, and batch sheets
- Operate commercial mixers, cooking equipment, and production machinery
- Assist with cooking, mixing, molding, and finishing confectionery products
- Safely transfer hot product during production
- Monitor weights, temperatures, times, and batch quantities
- Package and label finished products
- Complete basic production records
- Clean and sanitize equipment and work areas
- Assist with raw materials and inventory
- Work closely with a small production team
Math & Attention to Detail
Being comfortable with basic math is important in this position.
You do not need to perform advanced formulation calculations, but you must be comfortable working with:
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Decimals and fractions
- Percentages and ratios
- Grams and kilograms
- Digital scales
- Basic batch scaling
- Weights, temperatures, times, and quantities
Accuracy matters. An incorrect measurement or misplaced decimal can affect an entire production batch.
We want someone who will double-check their work and stop to ask a question if something does not look right rather than guessing.
Physical Requirements
This is an active production job that involves working around commercial cooking equipment and very hot confectionery mixtures.
Applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, including:
- Routinely lifting, supporting, moving, and controlling approximately 35–50 pounds
- Maintaining control of production vessels while carrying, transferring, and pouring
- Working safely around hot equipment and hot product
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling
- Performing repetitive production tasks
- Working in a warm production environment
- Wearing required personal protective equipment
Safely controlling 35–50 lb production vessels and materials is an essential safety-related function of this position.
Who We’re Looking For
You may be a great fit if you are:
- Reliable and punctual
- Comfortable working with numbers
- Detail-oriented
- Good at following written instructions
- Mechanically inclined
- Comfortable learning and operating equipment
- Able to work independently
- Able to work well with a small team
- Comfortable with physical, hands-on work
- Serious about cleanliness and safety
- Willing to learn
Experience in food production, commercial kitchens, baking, candy making, manufacturing, machine operation, mixing, brewing, warehouse production, or similar hands-on work is helpful but not required.
Pay
$19.00–$27.00 per hour
Starting pay is based on relevant experience, mechanical aptitude, and demonstrated ability to meet the requirements of the position.
We are willing to train the right person.
Pay: $19.00 - $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Application Question(s):
- This position routinely requires safely lifting, supporting, and controlling production vessels and materials weighing approximately 35–50 pounds, including containers holding very hot product. Are you able to perform these essential job functions, with or without reasonable accommodation?
- A production batch requires 125 grams of an ingredient. If the batch is being made 4 times larger, how many grams of that ingredient are required?
- A formula calls for 7.5 grams of an ingredient, but the scale reads 75.0 grams. What should you do before proceeding?
- A batch uses 2.5 kilograms of sugar. How many grams is that?
Work Location: In person
Salary : $19 - $27