Machine Operator Production - Lead Operator

PepsiCo; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking a Machine Operator Production - Lead Operator for their San Antonio facility. The role involves operating manufacturing equipment and ensuring production efficiency, safety, and cleanliness. Successful candidates will have prior experience in a high-speed production environment and be able to perform basic troubleshooting and maintenance tasks.

Qualifications

• 18 years or older.
• Experience with high-speed production lines.
• Capability to lift and carry 20-45 pounds repeatedly.

Responsibilities

• Operate and monitor production line(s) to ensure efficiency.
• Perform preventative maintenance and clean equipment.
• Expedite repairs to line, working with maintenance as necessary.

Skills

Maintenance

Teamwork

Troubleshooting

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• This position is a lead operator.
  
  

Position operates one or multiple pieces of manufacturing equipment. This may include moving raw material handling to the production line, and/or filling, capping, sealing, labeling or packaging product. Removes damaged products or supplies, as needed. Position responsible for production, package, and flavor changeovers. Maintains required product inspection processes. Performs basic troubleshooting and minor repairs to ensure production equipment runs efficiently.

Position requires lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling cases weighing 20-45 pounds per case repeatedly over a long work period. This position requires walking or standing most of the time during the shift and may include stooping, crawling and crouching over and under conveyors. Position may be required to work weekends and/or holidays.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Operate and monitor production line(s) to ensure efficiency
• Remove or shift materials and/or finished products to facilitate proper flow
• Ensure package and product quality
• Perform preventative maintenance
• Operate all manufacturing equipment (including new technologies) efficiently and safely
• Clean equipment and area before, during, and after shift
• Maintain clean work area through good housekeeping practices
• Expedite repairs to line, working with maintenance as necessary
• Keep daily records of down time and machine operations
• Work well with others in a team-oriented atmosphere
• Regular, reliable, predictable attendance
  
  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 18 years or older
  
  

HELPFUL EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with high speed production lines (e.g., high output, high performance equipment, fast paced production environment, etc.)
• Experience with pallets (e.g., operating a forklift, stacking/bundling product, etc.)
• Experience operating a packing machine (e.g., stacking, bundling, and wrapping product, etc.)
• Experience operating a filler machine (e.g., ensuring right mix of product, operating production computer, etc.)
• Experience operating a palletizer (e.g., building pallets, managing product changeovers, etc.)
• Experience reading blueprints (e.g., read schematics on a machine, understanding production product flow, etc.)
• Experience reading schedules (e.g., products being produced, understanding production requirements, production planning, managing changeovers, etc.)
• Experience with computers in a manufacturing setting (e.g., electronic settings, line speed, pressures, basic troubleshooting, solving for faults/alarms and resetting equipment, etc.)
• Experience with sanitization (e.g., basic procedures/steps, GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES in a food plant, identifying risks)
• Experience with minor mechanical repairs (e.g., jams, using tools, making basic adjustments to equipment, etc.)
• Experience with preventative maintenance (e.g., inspecting and maintaining equipment, detecting and correcting issues before they occur, etc.)
  
  

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Manufacturing and Food and Beverage Services

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