About the role
Your Role: Operate a food packing production line at a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) site. Maintain production area cleanliness and uphold workplace and food safety compliance. Complete assigned production tasks within a specified production schedule. Check for quality of finished product and prepare for shipment.
Pay, Schedule & Benefits: * This is a part-time, non-exempt hourly position. Starting pay rate is between $20 to $20.25/hour. * Initially scheduled for one 8 hour shift per week Monday-Friday. Regular working hours are 7:30am-4pm. Must have availability to pick up additional shifts; expected to cover team members’ pre-planned PTO (approximately 70-80%) and other last minute call-ins (60-70%). * Attend required meetings and trainings. * Our part-time benefits package includes paid time off (PTO), vision, a 401(k) plan with employer match, and an employee assistance program. Detailed benefit information can be found here: https://www.fmsc.org/about-us/careers/fmsc-benefits
What You’ll Do: * Perform routine and repetitive packaging of food product, equipment operations and other tasks of the production line. * Keep machine equipment processes moving. Troubleshoot as needed. Understand and maintain the production schedule. * Uphold food safety, food quality and workplace safety policies and procedures. Ensure compliance with all SSOPs, GMPs and personal hygiene related to food products. * Complete daily start-up activities. Prepare equipment, ingredients and materials for packing process. * Complete end-of-shift clean-up of equipment and production space. * Complete accurate records of production output, scrap, material usage and labor hours. * Prepare food product for shipment, including repackaging as needed, boxing and palletizing. * Check for quality of finished product. Identify, inspect and report product quality issues. * Follow equipment standard operating procedures. * Operate pallet jack to organize, load and unload ingredients and finished product as needed (training provided.) May be trained to operate industrial powered forklift. * Perform other duties as assigned.
Your Qualifications: * Commitment to support FMSC’s Christian mission and goals. * Must be 18 years of age or older. * Minimum of a high school diploma or GED. * 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing or warehouse environment preferred. Machine operation, production or warehouse experience desired. * Self-starter; can work independently and can follow processes, procedures and directions. * Takes initiative to identify and solve problems. Responsible and able to use good judgment and discretion. * Thrives in a team setting. Able to pitch in, fill in gaps, remain flexible, ask for help and share responsibilities.
Physical Requirements: * Able to exert yourself physically for an 8 hour shift. Able to walk and stand on concrete floor in intervals up to 4 hours. * Able to use arms and hands to reach overhead, forward and side to side. * Able to frequently climb stairs and work from various heights. * Able to push, pull, lift up to 30-50 lbs. repeatedly, bend, twist and use hand tools such as utility knives. * Able to operate a forklift, scissor lift and pallet jack.
Work Environment: * Able to tolerate consistent exposure to soy (an allergen). * Able to tolerate frequent exposure to variable temperatures and loud noise in a manufacturing setting. * Frequently required to wear provided personal protective equipment (ex. Earplugs, eye glasses, Nitrile gloves, hairnets).
Your Team: * Work location is Eagan, MN. * Reports to Assistant Production Manager.