Department: Production
Reports To: Lead Hand/Production Supervisor
Job Summary
Production Helpers assist lead hands in running production lines, sanitation procedures, basic paperwork and organization of crews around various stations in a continuous feed process making ice cream and ice water products.
Summary of Essential Job Functions
- Serve as primary assistant of the Lead Hand on each production line
- Ensure all paperwork is completed accurately, completely and in a timely fashion
- Help ensure that all General Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s) are being respected and adhered to by all member of the production team
- Act as a point of support, role model and leader to the line workers scheduled on their production line
- Required to be able to complete all line worker positions as required to cover breaks, lunches and/or any shortages of staffing on the line
- Required to assign and delegate duties to line workers and run the line when the lead hand steps away from the room
- Ensure that the room remains full of required stock (cartons, inclusions, wrap etc)
- Responsible for ensuring that any required inclusions are consistently added as scheduled and make minor adjustments to settings on ingredient dosers and pumps as required
- Aid the lead hand and sanitation in cleaning and organizing the line with the use of various chemicals and methods.
Position Requirements
- Attention to detail and proactive problem solving
- Excellent memory retention
- Teamwork and leadership skills
- Good reading and basic math skills
- Ability to listen to direction then produce desired results
- Good fine motor skills
- Work in a team environment. Work safely at all times, cognizant of traffic, other employees, and moving machinery
- Able to make quick decisions to maintain safe, good quality product in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent attendance
Physical Demands
- Ambient temperatures, but may be damp (humidity)
- Repetitive bending, lifting, walking, reaching, standing
- Overall lifting of up to 50lbs, may be repeated up to once every 4 minutes, depending on line/product.
- Overall bending, twisting, pulling, maybe repeated up to once every 4 minutes
What We Offer
- Competitive wages
- Opportunity to grow with the company
- Excellent benefit package
- Generous performance-based bonuses
- Excellent pension package
- Active social committee
- Employee assistance program
- Group home and auto insurance
- Uniforms and boots are provided
- Subsidized lunches at our onsite Cafeteria
- Work in the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility
- Job stability (no layoffs)
- FREE ICE CREAM!!
We enjoy what we do and we do it best!
All positions require rotating shift work, shifts include day/afternoon shifts or straight night shifts.
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
No telephone inquires, please.
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