Chemical Operator Rotating Shifts - Niagara Falls, NY

Kerry Group•Niagara Falls, NY

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The Niagara Falls, NY location produces organic salts, including propionates and acetates, serving Pharmaceutical, Food, Feed and Technical Industries. This is a fully automated manufacturing site producing world-class quality products for a global market. The products fill vital needs in a broad range of applications essential to everyday life, including food preservation, antibiotic formulation, dialysis treatment, and energy production.

Requirements

Chemical Operator experience
High School diploma or equivalent
Basic English and Math skills
Prior chemical plant experience preferred
Ability to climb mezzanine stairs to access process equipment and computer interface points, lift loads up to 50#, work in confined spaces.
Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, climb stairs.
Frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Frequently requires the ability to hear and to communicate verbally.

Responsibilities

Maintaining operating control of assigned production unit including committing company resources appropriately.
Completing assignments in a safe and orderly manner.
Completing all assignments with minimal amount of supervision or instructions.
Handling and use of products and materials and operation of process equipment to manufacture the company’s products to specification.
Receiving, storage and loading of product and materials, housekeeping and various miscellaneous types of work necessary to support operations of the plant.
Loading finished products.
Monitoring unit operations and perform standard tests to verify product compliance with specifications.
Setting up, testing or performing general service or repair to process equipment in support of plant operations.
Analyzing problems and trouble shoot to effect resolution.
Maintaining a working knowledge of materials and processes in the workplace.
Communicating as needed with other operators and the unit manager.
Using materials and equipment to avoid damage, lost production and waste.
Ability to lift 50lbs on a regular basis.
Performing other duties as assigned.