Dough Preparation - 2nd Shift

Job Title: Dough Prep   

Department:  Production  

Reports to:  Production Supervisor  

Come join our Team as a Dough Preparation Employee! We started with pastries handmade by Lois and Lloyd Martin inside of a garage and we have boomed into a multi-facility company where our many products are produced by machines and shipped domestically and internationally. Talk about a rich history and exciting future! As an employer of choice we offer physical, emotional, financial and professional benefits including 401K, disability insurance and paid holidays.

Summary: As a member of the Martin’s family, the dough prep laborer is responsible for creating product with our famous extraordinary quality by carefully setting up, monitoring, and adjusting machines that prepare the dough. Embraces a mindset of thorough planning and continuous improvement by recognizing and adjusting to the fluctuating needs of our customers. Accepts responsibility for moving the company towards being an industry leader in food safety.

Pay Rate: $21.41 + $3.00 pay differential and Weekend Premiums, paid weekly!

Your shift will typically run from 12:50 PM to 9:00 PM, but you must be willing to work up to 12 hours depending on business requirements.

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

• 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