Batch Operator Tl

Peco Foods • Lake, MS

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This position tends machines that mix stock or poultry feed according to formula and conveys it to packing machine or storage: Dumps specified number of sacks of meal, mash, grain, and meat scrap into machine hopper, or presses buttons on control panel to transfer individual ingredients from separate bins to batch scale hopper until specified weight of each ingredient is obtained. Weighs additives, such as minerals and vitamins, and dumps them into hopper. Starts machine to mix ingredients, and start elevators and conveyors to transfer feed to storage tanks or packing machine hoppers. May tend machines that automatically weigh out specified amounts of mash and grain prior to mixing with ingredients and be designated Feeder Operator, Automatic (grain-feed mills).

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Some Computer skills needed.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required: Close vision, Distance vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to walk; sit; reach, push and pull with hands and arms; climb or balance; talk or hear and smell.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Nice To Haves

• May tend machines that automatically weigh out specified amounts of mash and grain prior to mixing with ingredients and be designated Feeder Operator, Automatic (grain-feed mills).

Responsibilities

• Tends machines that mix stock or poultry feed according to formula.
• Conveys mixed feed to packing machine or storage.
• Dumps specified number of sacks of meal, mash, grain, and meat scrap into machine hopper.
• Presses buttons on control panel to transfer individual ingredients from separate bins to batch scale hopper until specified weight of each ingredient is obtained.
• Weighs additives, such as minerals and vitamins, and dumps them into hopper.
• Starts machine to mix ingredients.
• Starts elevators and conveyors to transfer feed to storage tanks or packing machine hoppers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED