Dough Preparation - 2nd Shift

MARTINS FAMOUS PASTRY SHOPPE • Valdosta, GA

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Join Martin's as a Dough Preparation Employee in the Production Department. Martin's, a multi-facility company that grew from handmade pastries, produces and ships products domestically and internationally. The company offers physical, emotional, financial, and professional benefits including 401K, disability insurance, and paid holidays. As a dough prep laborer, you will be responsible for creating products of extraordinary quality by carefully setting up, monitoring, and adjusting machines that prepare the dough. This role requires a mindset of thorough planning and continuous improvement, adapting to fluctuating customer needs, and taking responsibility for maintaining industry-leading food safety standards.

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED
• Related experience in baking or manufacturing industries
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to write simple correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization
• Ability to speak clearly, listen, and respond
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
• Ability to operate or learn to operate machinery and equipment

Responsibilities

• Sets up, monitors, and adjusts machines including mixer, SBD, sheeter, pan line, oven, and proofer in accordance with fluctuating environment, ingredients, and demands
• Weighs dough ball to ensure consistency within specified standards
• Mixes dry and wet ingredients together to create dough (reads recipe, places ingredients in mixer both manually and automatically)
• Loads ingredients into mixing machine hopper from conveyor, scales, or hand-trucks
• Monitors and adjusts dusting flour to ensure dough balls are coated evenly and consistently
• Coats spiral flow with oil
• Performs preoperational inspection and reports any broken, damaged or missing equipment to supervisor
• Assists when pan, oven, or proofer jams occur on the line to reduce scrap
• Monitors flow of product entering oven, recognizes any imperfections or problems and takes immediate action to make corrections
• Shakes pans to center dough balls in pocket
• Ensure pans are turned properly in the proofer and oven
• Sets guides for product change over
• Provides production system with appropriate type and number of pans for current product
• Loads, unloads and operates the pan stacker, pan un-stacker, and de-panning equipment
• Places empty pans on conveyor system
• Sets up, monitors, and adjusts machine that sprinkles sesame seeds onto dough
• Load seed tub by dumping 50 lb. bags of seed
• Sifts gluten tailings
• Maintains cleanliness of work area
• Removes trash from facility and loads trash compactor
• Operates forklift to supply line with tubs of mix
• Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, quality and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations
• Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action

Benefits

• 401K
• disability insurance
• paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees