Overview POSITION SUMMARY: Lead production associates to properly operate equipment from a safety, quality, and efficient perspective, while maintaining the cleanliness of all equipment. Responsibilities ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: + Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance. + Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility. + Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualification. + Must perform lockout tagout as required for qualification. + Ensure daily department start-up and shut-down of equipment and processes. + Inspects and ensures all machinery is operational and clean. + Must ensure proper machine operations and standards by working with operators and maintenance in troubleshooting. + Must ensure proper communication with the maintenance team and provide operational support for maintenance team. + Must have an understanding of the PRISM system to ensure proper pallet tracking and production inventory. + Must work with team members to maintain standard changeovers while maintaining standard line efficiencies. + Must be able to communicate and plan ahead by coordinating production schedule in conjunction with the Supervisor to increase production outputs. + Must be able to indentify proper product flow from hold tanks thru flow panels to production machines. + Provides relief break to associates as needed. + Assists in compounding responsibilities for new product development. + Assist in training new associates. + Collection, review, and submittal of production paperwork. + Must be able to disassemble production equipment: clean, rinse and sanitize all product contact machinery utilizing proper cleaning utensils, chemicals, and COP (Clean Out of Place) process. + Must be able to reassemble production equipment: clean, rinse, and sanitize all product contact machinery utilizing proper cleaning utensils, chemicals, and CIP (Clean In Place) process. + Document completed work as required by the supervisor. + Compliance with all other duties as assigned. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: + Lead liquid products operations. PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES: + Maintain flow of product through machine. + Remove unusable product from machine, conveyors, boxes or floor. + Safely hose down machines or conveyors. + Change film rolls. + Lift cases of product. + Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: + Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing. + Stand/walk 7 or more hours per day. + Constantly reach, bend, twist/turn, grip/grasp, and talk/hear. + Constantly use eye/hand coordination. + Constantly lift up to 5 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 75 feet. + Constantly lift up to 25 lbs from floor to shoulder height and carry 20 feet. + Constantly lift up to 50 lbs from floor to shoulder height. + Frequently kneel, crawl, squat, and climb (stairs including 12-16 steps). + Frequently use handling/fingering and taste/smell. + Frequently lift up to 100 lbs from floor to waist height and carry 20 feet. + Occasionally carry up to 50 lbs up steps. + Push film cart requiring 12 lbs of force 50 feet. + Pull open cup denester requiring 39 lbs of force. + Push combo lid, hand truck and pallets of product requiring 25 lbs of force 50 feet. + Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision. ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS: + Constantly work in damp, wet, humid and slippery environments. + Constantly work in high places. + Constantly work near moving equipment with fumes or airborne debris. + Constantly work in extreme heat/cold. + Constantly work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection. + Occasionally work with toxic or caustic chemicals. MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE + Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform or smock. + Cut resistant gloves. + Nitrile gloves, plastic apron, and plastic sleeves. + All liquid products production equipment. + Food safety knife and small hand tools. + Manual and electric pallet jack. + Lockout locks and tags. Qualifications REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: + High school diploma or GED. + Knowledge of departmental operational positions and procedures. LANGUAGE SKILLS: + Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. + Ability to write simple correspondence. + Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one small group situations to customers, clients, and other team members of the organization. + Ability to use effective problem solving skills. + Ability to review and correct production paperwork. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: + Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in accordance with production paperwork. + Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance. LocationUS-GA-Conyers Job ID 2024-20607