Production Associate

Company Overview

Denali Ingredients is a small ice‑cream ingredient supplier located in New Berlin, Wisconsin. We provide a customer‑centric, fun, and engaging work environment and supply ice‑cream flavoring and texture ingredients to business customers across the US and Canada.

• Lively atmosphere
• Company perks
• Safe work environment
• Casual work attire
• On‑the‑job training
• Growth opportunities

The following list of duties and responsibilities is not all‑inclusive and may be expanded as needed.

• Follow recipes to produce food products of specified flavor, texture, clarity, bouquet, or color.
• Set up, operate, and tend equipment that mixes, blends, or processes ingredients in the manufacturing of food products, according to formulas or recipes.
• Sort, weigh, and inspect products, verifying and adjusting product weight or measurement to meet specifications.
• Turn valve controls to start equipment and to adjust operation to maintain product quality.
• Press switches and turn knobs to start, adjust, and regulate equipment such as mixers, extruders, discharge pumps, freeze tunnels, screens, metal detectors and scales.
• Observe and listen to equipment to detect possible malfunctions, such as leaks or plugging, and report malfunctions to supervisors.
• Attach labels to finished packaged items.
• Monitor the production line, watching for problems such as scale not working properly. Fill containers to standard set on label.
• Complete and maintain all required paperwork.
• Take part in our annual inventory of material, equipment and supplies as assigned.
• Follow all clean‑up and housekeeping procedures.
• Follow departmental GMP standards.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

High school diploma or equivalent and one to three years of related experience.

Ability to speak, read, and comprehend English. Comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to effectively present information in one‑on‑one and situations to other employees of the organization.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals in all units of measure.

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Ability to operate various tools and equipment including a computer, hoist, hand truck and various small hand tools. Ability to pass forklift operator course and drive a forklift.

Careful about detail, thorough, reliable, and friendly with a cooperative attitude.

Regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls. Occasionally required to walk, sit, reach above shoulders, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Requires close vision and peripheral vision.

Denali Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer that continues to build a culture of belonging through our commitment to attracting and retaining diverse talent from all backgrounds, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant.

The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.