Mixer - 2nd Shift Motley Plant
About The Position
The Mixer sets up, tends, adjusts, and operates machines that mix or blend product ingredients. The role follows batch schedules and standard operating procedures to ensure ingredients, quantities, and finished product meet established requirements. The Mixer also monitors equipment, maintains production records, and cleans and sanitizes equipment and the work area. The position involves regularly standing, walking, handling and reaching for items, and lifting and carrying materials. The employee works around moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions and extreme cold. Other occasional exposures include high or precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather, electrical shock risk, and vibration; the work environment is usually loud. This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Employment is contingent on maintaining valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment.
Requirements
- Must maintain valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment; this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Three to six months of food manufacturing experience is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Review the batch schedule to verify the correct ingredients and amounts for each batch.
- Lift frozen product onto pallets or pitch it into a crusher.
- Weigh or measure ingredients and product to ensure they meet requirements.
- Operate the mixer, blend ingredients, and add ingredients at the appropriate times according to standard operating procedures.
- Observe equipment and alert maintenance to breakdowns or mechanical problems.
- Make minor equipment adjustments to control product flow or adjust color hue.
- Examine ingredients and product visually and by touch to ensure they meet established standards.
- Stop mixing when specified product qualities are obtained, open valves, and start pumps to transfer the mixture.
- Notify Quality Assurance about ingredients that may not meet required standards.
- Keep equipment, tools, and the work area clean according to company specifications.
- Record information for each batch according to company specifications.
- Dismantle and clean equipment according to standard sanitation procedures, then reassemble it.
- Complete required training on Trident’s environmental and safety policies and perform work according to applicable procedures and instructions.
- Report environmental or safety incidents and previously undocumented risks to designated personnel.
- Perform other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Optional HRA/HSA
- Telemedicine
- Employee assistance and wellness programs
- Long-term disability
- Basic life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off
- 10 paid holidays each year
- Paid parental leave
- Vacation accrual beginning on the first day of employment, up to 112 hours per year
- Up to 48 hours of sick leave per year, in accordance with company policy
- Full-time employees may be eligible for discretionary or performance-based incentives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
