Production Worker

Ruiz Foods•Florence, SC

35d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for performing various tasks on the production line to ensure the efficient and high-quality output of food products. Key duties include manually placing tortillas, inspecting for defects, maintaining production standards, and adhering to strict safety and sanitation regulations. The role requires consistent attendance, punctuality, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Additionally, the Production Worker will be involved in cleaning, waste disposal, and supplying ingredients to production machinery.

Requirements

Regular and dependable attendance and punctuality.
Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to maintain production and quality requirements.
Knowledge, understanding, and adherence to safety policies, USDA, GMPs, QA, HACCP, Sanitation rules and regulations, and company policies.

Responsibilities

Manually place individual tortillas from stacks onto platen/conveyor at standard speed, ensuring consistent direction and orientation.
Inspect tortillas for foreign objects and quality defects, removing or reworking substandard product.
Achieve company standards for pace rate and placement quality when "throwing" tortillas.
Maintain knowledge, understanding, and adherence to safety policies, USDA, GMPs, QA, HACCP, Sanitation rules and regulations, and company policies.
Dispose of waste by throwing out waste, rinsing trash containers, and moving them to the waste area.
Remove food debris from conveyor catch pans and place it in designated inedible containers.
Enter discarded waste information into the company computer system as needed.
Clean out debris from drain baskets and wash conveyor equipment as needed.
Rinse, sweep, and squeegee floors.
Set up and position fatigue mats and stools for other workers at individual workstations.
Refill sanitizing containers as needed.
Supply food products and ingredients to each production line and filler machines to maintain production rates.
Manually refill hoppers with buckets of food for pump operation.
Perform all other duties as assigned.