What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Support position at Prism Public Affairs?
Description
Objective: The Production Specialist is responsible for preparing and packaging a wide range of products to ensure quality and feed safety guidelines are met while maintaining a hospitable, courteous, and efficient manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
Required Skills/Abilities:
Objective: The Production Specialist is responsible for preparing and packaging a wide range of products to ensure quality and feed safety guidelines are met while maintaining a hospitable, courteous, and efficient manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
- Controls, operates, and/or maintains automated production machinery that blend, mix, process, fill and package product.
- Operates equipment such as forklift, pallet jacks, and material handling equipment as trained and qualified.
- Follow operating procedures and customer specifications to produce quality products in a timely manner.
- Ensures nonconforming raw materials, in-process, and finished products are identified, segregated, weighed, and dispositioned according to procedure.
- Clean, sanitize and sterilize equipment, apply general housekeeping practices, carry out reductive handling.
- Performs work in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures and Safe Feed/Safe Foods.
- Rotates through various stations, where needed, to ensure production needs are met.
- Perform and complete accurate and timely quality check sheets as defined on machine checklist.
- Understand noncompliant product holds, relay discrepancies to managers, and make corrective actions as needed.
- Perform to machine standard run rates, along increasing efficiency, and reducing shrink by playing an active role with the team members to meet company goals.
- Maintain an organized, clean, and safe work environment.
- Complies with safety policies, participates in the plants safety program and is proactive with safety concerns.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening.
- Flexibility with task rotations.
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks and effectively work independently.
- Adjust priorities and manage time wisely in a fast-paced environment with a proactive approach to unusual occurrences.
- Must also have the ability to work collaboratively with others as part of the team.
- Service-oriented and able to accommodate customer concerns.
- Capable of reading and understanding production documents and safety manuals.
- Ability to work with and around industrial hazards and wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for extended periods of time. Proper PPE provided.
- Ability to work scheduled shift as assigned.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 2 years’ experience working in production is strongly preferred.
- Capable of lifting 50 pounds on a regular basis.
- Able to work on foot for extended periods of time – up to 8-hour shifts.
- Physically capable of manual labor that includes lifting, bending, pushing, pulling and reaching.
- Able to operate industrial machinery.