HEAVY PRODUCTION WORKER

AMPI•Portage, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

AMPI owns six Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation’s American-type cheese and processed cheese is produced. The cooperative’s award-winning cheese and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled cheesemakers.

Requirements

Must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Nice To Haves

High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) preferred.

Responsibilities

Report employee safety, food safety and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
Perform duties including cheese trimming, palletizing for the process line, trim handling, cooling and racking loaves, case packing, production checking, feeding stacking slice and load hauling.
Operate packaging equipment efficiently and safely.
Monitor procedures and working conditions that could result in product contamination or excessive waste.
Communicate effectively with plant personnel.
Verify quality control items such as product weights, coding, uniformity, and packaging.
Maintain proper documentation in all formats of recordkeeping.
Operate various machines at an efficient level to fulfill plant demands.
Assist with sanitation and housekeeping throughout the plant.
Adhere to all aspects of company and customer safety, sanitation and policies.
Assist with training new employees.
Provide assistance to the maintenance personnel for machine repairs or troubleshooting.
Adhere to all Quality and Food Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
Adhere to all Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
Adhere to all GMP policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.