About the Role
The Batching Operator mixes large quantities of raw materials to cook sauces, condiments, and salad dressings, following all batching processes, customer specifications, and food safety standards.
Responsibilities
- Check schedules and report to assigned batching station
- Commence pre-operation inspections and safety inspections, conforming with company’s good manufacturing practices
- Assemble and connect hoses, checking to ensure they are fully clean before use
- Turn on machinery and program ingredients on HMI program
- Retrieve required spices and ingredients from Spice Preparers and Material Handlers
- Confirm quantity of ingredients needed, using light mental math or a calculator
- Cook assigned sauces while adhering to critical control point measures by taking samples to the quality assurance lab as required
- Transfer finished product to holding tanks or send product to filling machines
- Quickly reset and re-start process for next batches
- Perform cleaning in place (CIP) processes for product changeovers
- Meet targets, by ensuring efficiency and safety protocols are met
- Continuous communicate with Material Handlers to ensure that any heavy ingredients are picked up when not needed, keeping a clean, organized station
- Learn and operate proficiently on multiple batching stations
- Assist other Cooks on several platforms as needed
Requirements
- Experience in food manufacturing, minimum 6 months, required
- Minimum High School Diploma, required
- Experience in cooking, preferred
- Experience operating lift truck, preferred
- Willingness to learn
- Able to understand and interpret HMI systems
- Lifting and/or carrying up to 50lbs
- Long standing hours, at heights of up to 15 feet
- High noise levels, ear protection provided if requested
- Exposure to temperature changes, heat, humidity, and cold depending on cooking cycles
- Exposure to dust, allergens, and strong scents
Skills
- HMI systems operation
- Basic math skills
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6 months experience in food manufacturing
Education Level
- High School Diploma
