LIGHT PRODUCTION WORKER

AMPI • Portage, WI

25d • 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

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

Responsibilities

• All AMPI employees have an obligation to report employee safety, food safety and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
• This position has a heightened food safety and food quality responsibilities.
• Duties of the light production worker may include stack and feed, inspection of product, case product, apply labels, relief, weigh food processing waste and record.
• Monitors procedures and working conditions that could result in product contamination or excessive waste.
• Communicates effectively with plant personnel.
• Verify quality control items such as product weights, coding, uniformity, and packaging.
• Maintain proper documentation in all formats of recordkeeping.
• Assist with sanitation and housekeeping throughout the plant.
• Adhere to all aspects of company and customer safety, sanitation and policies.
• Assists with training new employees.
• Provides assistance to the maintenance personnel, for machine repairs or troubleshooting.
• Adheres to all Quality and Food Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
• Adheres to all Safety policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.
• Adheres to all GMP policies and procedures, reporting any nonconformity.

Benefits

• AMPI offers competitive starting pay, PTO, 401k, short-term disability, health, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance programs and more.

What This Job Offers

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