Job Description: Production Operator Batch Maker
Summary:
Join our dynamic team as a Production Operator Batch Maker and play a crucial role in our manufacturing process. If you're passionate about working with machinery, ensuring product quality, and being part of a collaborative team, this opportunity is for you. This position offers a competitive pay rate of $20/hour, with a work schedule of Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
Main Responsibilities:
- Operate Machinery: Utilize mixers, forklift trucks, and pallet jacks in the production process.
- Measure and Mix: Accurately weigh or measure raw materials and add them to mixing tanks as per batch tickets.
- Blend Ingredients: Start machines to mix or blend ingredients, ensuring they mix for the specified times.
- Quality Control: Match colors to QA Lab standards by tinting products according to batch tickets.
- Monitor and Adjust: Stop mixing or blending equipment per instructions once the specified product quantity is obtained.
- Sample Collection: Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
- Maintenance and Cleanliness: Clean and maintain mixing tanks, equipment, and work area.
- Punctuality and Reliability: Adhere to work schedule, report to work on time, and work throughout the assigned shift.
- Follow Directions: Accept and implement directions from the shift supervisor.
- Equipment Monitoring: Observe equipment operations and notify the supervisor of any malfunctions.
- Housekeeping: Perform housekeeping duties, including cleaning of work area and blending equipment.
- Labeling and Shipping: Apply labels to products and/or cases and help load trucks.
Requirements:
- Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent.
- Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with a diverse team.
- Instruction Compliance: Ability to follow written and verbal instructions/directions.
- Attention to Detail: Detail-oriented to follow specific procedures and work instructions.
- Math Skills: Basic math skills - adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
- Safety and Pace: Work safely at a sustained pace to produce quality work and sufficient quantity as determined by the production planner.
- Personal Protective Equipment: Wear specified PPE throughout the shift, including steel/composite toe work boots, safety glasses, aprons, protective gloves, respirators, masks, and face shields as required.
- Exposure: Handle exposure to fumes or airborne particles.
- Safety Training: Complete required safety training, perform tasks safely, and follow safety policies.
- Chemical Handling: Handle caustic or acidic chemicals after appropriate training and with appropriate PPE.
- Reliability: Must be reliable and dependable.
Preferred Experience:
- Manufacturing: 3 years
- Mixing/Batch Making: 1 year
Physical Demands:
- Activity: Stand, walk, handle, reach outward and above shoulder, climb, and bend frequently.
- Lifting: Ability to lift/carry up to 50 lbs.
- Environment: Work near moving mechanical parts.
Schedule and Pay:
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 4:30 PM
- Pay Rate: $20/hour
If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, apply today to become a part of our team!