Production Operator I

Niagara Bottling•Lancaster, TX

10d

About The Position

This position is responsible for daily production-floor operations, ensuring the shift meets established safety, quality, and production goals while complying with applicable legal and food safety requirements. The role supports production lines by maintaining product standards, keeping lines supplied with raw materials, addressing minor production issues, and completing required reports and inspections. Team members are expected to maintain safety, good manufacturing practices, food safety standards, and housekeeping requirements. The schedule may involve 12-hour day or night shifts on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule, or another schedule determined by production demand.

Requirements

No experience in the field or a similar manufacturing environment is required; experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
No experience in the position is required; experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
No experience managing people or projects is required; experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
High school diploma or GED.
Ability to work 12-hour shifts, day or night, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or as dictated by production demand.

Nice To Haves

Two years of experience in the field or a similar manufacturing environment.
Two years of experience in the position.
Two years of experience managing people or projects.
Associate's degree.

Responsibilities

Operate daily production-line activities and ensure products meet Niagara's safety, quality, and throughput standards.
Complete applicable quality and production reports hourly.
Conduct physical and visual product inspections to identify non-conforming goods, and report quality defects to appropriate team members and shift leadership.
Follow company and plant safety programs, guidelines, rules, and regulations.
Follow Niagara's Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Food Safety Standards.
Maintain housekeeping in production areas and other areas assigned by plant leadership.
Maintain appropriate raw-material levels to minimize production-line downtime.
Work in assigned production areas, troubleshoot minor production-line issues, and perform relief duties when required.
Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
Work 12-hour shifts, days or nights, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or as dictated by production demand.

Benefits

Paid time off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time.
Paid parental and caregiver leaves.
Medical coverage, including virtual care options.
Dental coverage.
Vision coverage.
401(k) with company match.
Health Savings Account with company match.
Flexible Spending Accounts.
Expanded mental wellbeing benefits, including free counseling sessions for team members and household family members.
Family-building benefits, including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation, plus adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursements.
Income protection, including life and AD&D, short- and long-term disability, critical illness, and accident plans.
Special discount programs, including pet plans, prepaid legal services, identity theft protection, car rental, and airport parking.
Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan, and scholarship opportunities.