Incubator​/Palletizer Technician - Night Shift

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani
® Italian cheeses and ricotta,
Président
® specialty cheeses and butters,
Kraft
® natural and grated cheeses,
Break stone’s® cottage cheese,
Cracker Barrel
®,
Black Diamond
® cheddar, and Parmalat
® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®,
Stonyfield Organic
®,
Brown Cow
™,
Oui
®,
Yoplait
®,
Go-Gurt
®, :ratio
®,
Green Mountain Creamery
®, and Mountain High
®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun
®,
Gopi
®, and Arz
®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—
Ambition
, Engagement
, and Simplicity
. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION
, your STORY
, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

Lactalis US Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring an Incubator Technician based in Londonderry, NH.

The basic functions of this position are to move pallets from the palletizers to the appropriate positions in the incubator and to monitor the fermentation process of yogurt determining the correct time to move pallets from the incubator to the cooling tunnels, recording specific data throughout the process according to SOP’s. In this position the operator will be called on at any time to perform either the Incubator tech or the palletizer operator position or both depending on workload.

Yes - you read that right! Our two week rotation in Production allows our team members to have every other Friday, Saturday, Sunday off!

We run 12 hour shifts - Week 1: 48 Hours, Week 2: 36 hours

6:30p - 6:30a

• Week 1: Sat - On, Sun - On, Mon - Off, Tues - Off, Wed - On, Thurs - On, Fri - Off
• Week 2: Sat - Off, Sun - Off, Mon - On, Tues - On, Wed - Off, Thurs - Off, Fri - On

• Monitor temperature and pH of product ensuring product is pulled at the desired pH levels as set by the QC Department in accordance with prescribed protocol.
• Monitor quality and notify QC Supervisor or Lead QC Technician of recommendation for product to be put on hold.
• Coordinate & communicate pallet flow with Production Supervisor and Incubator team to best utilize incubator floor space
• Enter all pallet data into data base on computer (line, time, pH, temperature)
• Properly generate Tekdan labels for all pallets declared in the incubator
• Using Tekdan and SAP maintain pallet inventory and status by the proper sampling, scrapping and blocking of product
• Maintain legible & accurate records of all data recorded
• Operate palletizers in order to ensure maximum efficiency of the production lines and product quality
• Maintain palletizers pallet inventories by replenishing empty pallets from shipping trailers to palletizers as needed
• Efficiently unload palletizers to the incubator storage location
• Communicate with line operators and maintenance discrepancies of product quality
• Must be familiar with and follow all lock-out/tag-out procedures
• Must maintain housekeeping keeping work areas at a high sanitary condition at all times
• Must follow all SOP and all GMP guidelines at all times
• Must follow stringent safety guidelines at all times and enforce these guidelines with coworkers
• Write work orders for items in area of responsibility, which are in need of repair. Also follow up to see that they are repaired.
• Perform other duties as assigned