Production Technician - Forklift Operator
Hostess Brands, LLC

Job Info

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TITLE

Production Technician, Forklift operator

LOCATION

Grandview, WA

REPORTS TO

Operations Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

In this role you will support a variety of areas in our fruit processing and packaging operations, sanitation, and drum washing.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow all Company Safety Rules and Good Manufacturing Practices
  
• Produce high quality products in a safe, sanitary, and healthful manner
  
• Maintain documentation and production records that are legible, accurate, and complete
  
• Communication with team leaders, leads, maintenance, and all production personnel to achieve self-sufficient team goals
  
• Understands and applies HACCP, plant quality, plant GMP's, and food safety requirements to the daily performance of the job
  
• Performs housekeeping and sanitation duties, according to company SSOP's
  
• Maintain a clean work environment
  
• Must be able to work any shift, including weekends and overtime as needed while maintaining a good attendance record
  
• Flow to the work in all areas of production
  
• Ability to work as part of a team and assist others as needed
  

SALARY RANGE

$22.45- $26.41 per hour

BENEFITS

Comprehensive benefits package effective first day of employment, including: medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) Savings Plan with up to 7% Company match, 2 weeks paid vacation (prorated the first year of employment), 12 paid company holidays, paid sick leave, annual holiday bonus.

Additional benefits include:

• Company-provided life and AD&D insurances
  
• Company-provided short-and long-term disability
  
• Voluntary Life & Health Benefits
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
  
• Employee Discounts
  
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  
• Adoption assistance & surrogacy reimbursement
  
• Bereavement leave
  

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education

• High school degree or equivalent is required
  

Experience

• Two years previous manufacturing experience a plus
  
• Previous forklift driving experience a plus
  
• Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, GMP's, and general instructions as well as carry out both oral and written communication skills
  
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out both oral and written instructions
  
• Ability to effectively read, comprehend, and fill in production forms accurately with dates, times, temperatures and other processing information
  
• Able to work with and around cleaning chemicals and perform sanitation duties
  

Other / Physical Demands

• Minimum age of 18
  

• Employee is regularly required to stand, walk, lift (67-100%)
  
• Employee is regularly required to use hands and arms for reaching/grasping /handling/ fine finger manipulation during the day (67-100%)
  
• Employee must be able to work any shift (day or night) including weekends
  
• Employee must be able to occasionally squat, bend, work above shoulders, climb stairs or ladders (11-33%)
  
• Employee must be able to frequently lift up to 25 lb. (34-66%)
  
• Employee must be able to seldom lift 60 lb. (1 - 10%)
  
• The employee must be able to wear required Personal Protective Equipment including safety glasses, hearing protection, and bump caps.
  

Learn More About Working at Smucker

• Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
  
• Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
  
• Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
  

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