Production Operator - Proliant Dairy Ingredients - St. Johns - Day Shift

PURPOSE

Proliant Dairy Ingredients is committed to providing the best dairy ingredient options for enhancing the value and effectiveness of our partners’ products. We are formulating success by living our values of Continuous Improvement, Teamwork, Quality, and Leadership.

The purpose of this job is to assist various areas within the plant while maintaining efficient production processes in accordance with established policies and procedures, and to meet customer specifications.

Day Shift/12-hours, 4:00 AM - 4:00 PM (36 hours one week/48 hours the next week) $21.86/hour starting pay 3 weeks PTO, prorated based on hire date 10 paid holidays, plus 1 paid floating holiday Medical, dental, vision available on the 1st of the month following hire date 401k employer match

• Education:
  
  High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience:
  
  One year stable work experience in the areas such as dairy, agriculture, production, or manufacturing preferred.

• Packing Operate packaging and palletizing equipment and make appropriate adjustments as needed
• Bag and blend finished powder, weigh, sample, seal, and palletize product and move pallets which may require a forklift or pallet jack
• Properly label and use computerized inventory tracking system for finished product per customer and company specifications/requirements
• Keep accurate logs of all quality related checks and verifications
• Receiving/Raw Inventory Management/Silos Perform quality checks on raw inventory on each load whether it be trucked or piped in
• Unload raw inventory from trucks
• Complete appropriate paperwork to document findings of quality checks
• Complete appropriate paperwork to document inventory
• Load product tanks and silos
• Provide support for basic analytical testing on finished product
• Dryers/Production Equip Operate evaporator, Triple C, fluid bed and other production equipment as required
• Operate spray dryers, monitor intake and exhaust temperatures, monitor and sample powdered product, check operation of spray nozzles, and sweep down dryers
• Make appropriate adjustments to the above equipment as needed
• Operate bag house, makes sure air is on, check on moving parts, and help with removal and replacement of bags
• Assist maintenance with projects and repairing/replacing motors and pumps and other duties as requested to maintain equipment
• Provide support for basic analytical testing on finished product
• Other Properly store and track product (raw and/or finished), materials (consumable and packaging) and chemicals in warehouse according to the First In First Out (FIFO) inventory systems
• Maintain a clean and safe work area including proper care and storage of tools/equipment
• Perform CIP operations on all equipment and work with outside sanitation vendor to ensure proper cleaning of equipment/drains/etc
• Assist in ensuring fundamental food safety and quality practices are maintained to achieve food safety and quality objectives and to support ongoing improvements of food safety programs
• Work safely and communicate safety risks or concerns right away
• Comply with all regulatory, food safety, occupational safety and quality programs and expectations

• Ability to prepare and operate all machinery in plant
• General knowledge of production/manufacturing methods
• Knowledge of dryer operation and evaporation processes, but not required.
• Knowledge of industrial production processes in human food and animal feed processing plant is preferred, but not required
• Ability to read gauges and record data in a legible manner and in accordance with established procedures
• Ability to learn handling of food grade materials in accordance with established sanitary procedures
• Ability to understand and follow established work procedures, including mandated…