What are the responsibilities and job description for the Edible Oil Technician - Nights 5:00pm to 5:00am 2-2-3 work week position at Zeeland Farm Services, Inc.?
Job Summary:
Responsible for monitoring and operating oil refinery processing equipment and assures production quality standards are met.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Constantly monitor and control plant operations to carry out the established operations plan, anticipating and solving problems in a timely manner, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Physically monitor and maintain within normal ranges operating parameters including process temperatures, vacuums, pressures, flows and levels to evaluate automatically controlled process.
- Take product samples per product specifications, analyze product quality and record resulting test data.
- Maintain logs of instrument readings observed during hourly rounds. This includes pressure and temperature gauges, checking pumps for leaks, checking tanks for leaks, etc.
- Follow all company and regulatory food safety policies and procedures. Reports any potential food safety issues to management. Participates in all programs and procedures required to ensure plant cleanliness.
- Communicates regularly with all other employees and departments and assists all other employees and departments as required for efficient plant operation.
- Participates in projects as needed or assigned by management that improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
- Provides a “Customer Service” attitude when interacting with internal and external customers while accomplishing work, production, and achieving quality standards.
- Abides by all safety, health, environmental and food/feed safety policies, and procedures.
- Maintains a clean, orderly, and safe workstation/environment at all times. Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Education and Experience:
- Education: High School or Equivalent
- Experience : 1-2 Years in manufacturing preferred.
- A Post-Secondary education and or technical trade certificate is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to adapt to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Ability to exhibit a professional manner in dealing with other departments, working to maintain constructive working relationships under all circumstances.
- Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and management.
- Ability to maintain good attendance habits.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Abide by all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description. Abide by company’s safety, quality, environmental and HR policies at all times.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Frequently required to walk, stand, sit.
- Frequently required to climb to levels of 125 feet or more, confined and harnessed. Use of stairs and ladders are required.
- Occasionally lift and/or move 50 pounds or more.
- Operate in an office and production environment. Production environment could include frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme heat or cold; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the production environment is usually very loud.
- This position requires the use of a respirator.
