Benefits Day ONE!
10 Paid Company Holidays
Shift: Thursday, Friday and Saturday6pm-6am
Must Have Open Availability to Work Overtime If Needed
Pay is $17/hr
MAIN RESPONSIBILITY
- Ensures that they follow specific instructions and recipes for each customer or product. They operate independently to combine large quantities of raw ingredients such as sugar, flour, shortening, flavors and other items to produce bakery products.
- Completes products in efficient and effective manner to ensure continuous production on lines as assigned. Typical products are mixes for cakes, breads, breadings, brownies, biscuits, muffins, fruit fillings, cream fillings, icings, glazes, and butter cream icings.
- Responsibilities may change without prior notice due to changes in ingredients, products, customer requirements, innovation, regulatory, safety, food safety or other change in the work environment. This position description is intended to be a general guide to describe the daily requirements, training or procedures and expectations of the position.
KEY TASKS / DUTIES
- Based on the current production schedule team members run products to meet our service level for our customers demand.
- Measuring and loading wet or dry ingredients and additives into equipment to make a batch.
- Ingredients must follow First-in-first-out (FIFO) to maintain the integrity of the ingredients.
- Communicates with their packaging counterparts on specific product being ran.
- Runs initial testing to ensure that the product being ran is within the specifications of the recipe.
- Operates hand-held bar code scanner to record the amount of raw materials used, product created and completes required paperwork for the run. This is the key to the traceability of the finished good products.
- Monitors the process to ensure desired product is achieved by quality and quantity required.
- Maintains cleanliness of the work area, follows food safety requirements and plant safety practices.
- Reports safety hazards to people or product and complies with Good Manufacturing Practices.
- Supports the Circle of Excellence and the Dawn Philosophy of Team Dawn.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Physical duties involved in performing this position include but are not limited to lifting, filling, pushing, pulling,walking, standing, crouching, reaching overhead, climbing stairs, reading instructions, observing reactions of
materials to a variety of processes in addition to communicating to other persons issues that arise in the
processes mentioned and otherwise moving product from bulk form into mixing equipment for cooking and
blending. This position requires proper sanitation of the equipment and processes and the handling of
allergen and non-allergen raw materials within specific guidelines. Most of the raw materials weight between
25-100 pounds. Lifting activities are constant during a regular shift that can be 8, 10 or 12 hours in a day
based on customer demand for product. This is a fast-paced environment requiring constant and continuous
production. Relief team members cover during breaks and lunches to provide consistency in products.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Must be able to read written formulas, instructions, scale read-outs, machine buttons, and safety precautions
- Capable of performing mathematical calculations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and percentages.
- Must be able to work as part of a team.
EQUIPMENT USED
- Kettles, blenders, mixer, metering system, hand scanner, scales, scoops, scrapers, hand carts, forklifts, and other equipment.
SAFETY HAZARDS/PPE REQUIREMENTS
- Mobile equipment traffic in the area.
- Slippery surfaces; slipping and tripping hazards due to ingredients.
- Temperatures of batches, caution in working with process.
- Moving machinery with the equipment being used.
- Non-slip footwear provided to ensure proper footing.
REPORTING STRUCTURE
- Receives daily instruction from production supervisor or shift manager.
- Reports to Production Supervisor
Here at Dawn, our crisis management team is meeting regularly to assess our response to COVID-19. As part of this, we are looking at potential changes in our interview and onboarding process, as your health and safety is of the utmost importance to us. We encourage you to check back frequently and know that recruiters will be in touch with candidates as needed. We appreciate your interest in becoming part of the Dawn Family and will continue to make updates as new information becomes available.
Thank you,
Dawn Recruitment Team
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationaal origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
