Seasonal Production Laborer (Summer 2026)-2nd shift

Description:  Come join our team as a Summer Seasonal Employee on 2nd shift!  Please note that this is a temporary position during our summer months only and are 40+ hours a week in addition to weekend and holiday work as well as 8, 10 & 12 hour days when needed.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Dough Prep

* Sets up, monitors, and adjusts machines including mixer, SBD, sheeter, pan line, oven, and proofer in accordance with fluctuating environment, ingredients, and demands.

* Weighs dough ball to ensure consistency within specified standards.

* Mixes dry and wet ingredients together to create dough (reads recipe, places ingredients in mixer both manually and automatically).

* Loads ingredients into mixing machine hopper from conveyor, scales, or hand-trucks.

* Monitors and adjusts dusting flour to ensure dough balls are coated evenly and consistently.

* Coats spiral flow with oil.

* Performs preoperational inspection and reports any broken, damaged or missing equipment to supervisor.

* Assists when pan, oven, or proofer jams occur on the line to reduce scrap.

* Monitors flow of product entering oven, recognizes any imperfections or problems and takes immediate action to make corrections.

* Shakes pans to center dough balls in pocket.

* Ensure pans are turned properly in the proofer and oven.

* Sets guides for product change over.

* Provides production system with appropriate type and number of pans for current product.

* Loads, unloads and operates the pan stacker, pan un-stacker, and de-panning equipment.

* Places empty pans on conveyor system.

* Sets up, monitors, and adjusts machine that sprinkles sesame seeds onto dough.

* Load seed tub by dumping 50 lb. bags of seed.

* Sifts gluten tailings.

* Maintains cleanliness of work area.

* Removes trash from facility and loads trash compactor.

* Operates forklift to supply line with tubs of mix.

* Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.

* Reports food safety problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

Packaging

*Evaluates product entering packaging for quality standards.

*Removes substandard product from the line.

*Communicates quality issues to Line Control Supervisor for correction.

*Removes packaged product from conveyor line.

*Places packaged product into baskets.

*Monitors packaged product for quality standards.

*Packs special arrangements or selections of product.

*Verifies that the date packaged is correct.

*Starts and adjusts slicers and packaging machinery; requests necessary repairs from the maintenance team.

*Operates palletizing equipment

*Operates the bagging and kwickloc equipment.

*Maintain counts of finished product to meet orders generated via the load coordinating department.

*Communicate product clip demands to Line Control Supervisors

*Remove full or partial pallets of product from equipment for staging.

*Refill boxes of bagging equipment

*Monitor clips on finished product and perform checks for accuracy in regards to clip color, date, product and price.

*Maintain cleanliness of area.

*Assists co-workers when system is not running properly.

*Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance.

*Supports organizational culture and values by following policies, working with integrity, building morale, and respecting and putting others before oneself.

*Adheres to safety, food safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.

*Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiatve action.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 Education and/or Experience:

* High School Diploma/GED;

* Related experience in baking or manufacturing industries.

 Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization. Ability to speak clearly, listen, and respond.

 Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units