Seasonal Packaging Laborer-1st shift

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.

 

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.

* 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.

 

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 co