Production Operator

Niagara Bottling•Lancaster, TX

8d•Onsite

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 operator works across assigned production areas, maintains raw-material levels to minimize downtime, and helps keep production areas clean. The role requires physical and visual product inspections, completion of hourly quality and production reports, and reporting defects to appropriate team members and shift leadership. Operators troubleshoot minor production-line issues and perform relief duties when required. Regular and predictable attendance is essential. The position requires the ability to work 12-hour shifts, days or nights, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or as dictated by production demand. Duties may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Requirements

No prior experience is required; experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
High school diploma or GED.
Ability to work 12-hour shifts, days or nights, on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or as dictated by production demand.
Regular and predictable attendance.
Ability to perform physical and visual product inspections and complete production and quality reporting.

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; experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
Associate’s degree.

Responsibilities

Oversee daily activities on production lines and ensure products meet Niagara’s safety, quality, and throughput standards.
Complete applicable quality and production reports accurately each hour.
Physically and visually inspect products to prevent non-conforming goods and report quality defects to appropriate team members and shift leadership.
Follow company and plant safety programs, guidelines, rules, and regulations.
Abide by Niagara’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Food Safety Standards.
Maintain general housekeeping in production and other areas assigned by plant leadership.
Maintain appropriate raw-material levels to minimize production-line downtime.
Work in all assigned production areas, troubleshoot minor production-line issues, and perform relief duties when required.
Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
Work 12-hour day or night shifts on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule or as production demand dictates.

Benefits

Paid time off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time.
Paid parental and caregiver leaves.
Medical coverage, including virtual care options.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
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 an accident plan.
Discount programs, including pet plans, prepaid legal services, identity theft services, car rental, and airport parking.
Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan, and scholarship opportunities.