Bakery Prep Associate 1st Shift M-F 5am-1pm / 2nd Shift 1pm-9pm

Job Description: 

As a Bakery Production Associate at Michele’s Granola, you are a key member of our small-batch production team. In this role you will have several distinct and central roles in our kitchen facility including preparing product, baking product, packaging product, and cleaning and dishwashing. 

As part of our team, you will have clearly defined tasks to complete during the daily shift. The position involves standing for extended periods of time, repetitive motion, moving at a steady pace, lifting to 50lbs, and pushing up to 150lbs.   

Basic Expectations of the Bakery Production Associate include:  

1. Outstanding food safety, food handling, prep and packaging skills, including accuracy, time management, organization, reliability and enthusiasm in the kitchen  
2. Clear, consistent, and respectful communications with all teammates and Supervisors  
3. Meeting all company guidelines with regards to:  
4. Attendance, Punctuality and Break Times  
5. Uniform, Hygiene and Sanitation  
6. Job Knowledge and Individual Work Performance
7. Organization and Time management  
8. Quality and Consistency of work  
9. Overall Contributions to the team, product and company
10. Building a positive team and cooperative spirit  
11. Exhibiting a professional demeanor at all times  
12. Applying rigorous Quality Assurance practices throughout our daily production  
13. Pro-actively responding to company’s opportunities for growth  

Responsibilities of the Bakery Production Associate include: 

1. Arriving on time for the start of each production shift  
2. Adhering to safe work practices, cleaning, uniform, and hygiene standards  
3. Following all established recipes, food handling, baking, packaging and cleaning procedures, including workflow routines  
4. Ensuring consistency in food quality and upholding our high-quality assurance and sanitation standards  
5. Ensuring the maintenance of a clean, sanitary production facility to control allergens and contamination by performing opening, periodic and closing sanitation and cleaning duties, including but not limited to, cleaning and sanitizing equipment and work surfaces, dishwashing, sweeping, mopping, and trash removal   
6. Promptly notifying management of any issues related to production, facility, or equipment.  
7. Other duties as assigned, e.g., assisting with Quality Control programs and facility maintenance  

Specific Duties of the Bakery Production Associate include:   

1. Measuring and mixing raw materials according to recipe specifications  
2. Weighing product onto sheet pans according to recipe specifications  
3. Spreading product across sheet pans according to recipe specifications  
4. Loading oven racks, adhering to all pan and rack Quality Assurance guidelines 
5. Baking and Cooling product to specifications  
6. Filling, weighing, labeling and sealing bags of granola to specifications  
7. Packing, labeling, and stocking cases according to specifications  
8. Pre, Mid and End of shift Cleaning and dishwashing 
9. Other duties as assigned