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 full-time, non-exempt hourly position. Starting range is $20 to $20.25 per hour. * Work schedule is Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4pm. * Attend required meetings and trainings. * Benefits include health insurance, 401(k) with employer match, PTO, FSA, dental, vision, and more. 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 powered industrial forklift and pallet jack to organize, load, and unload ingredients and finished product as needed (training provided). * 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.