Packaging Operator (Whey/Nights)

Hilmar Cheese Company; Dalhart (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilmar Cheese Company is seeking a Protein Packaging Operator to run packaging processes and related equipment in a dairy production environment. You will ensure bags and totes are sealed and filled correctly, keep accurate paperwork, and operate computer controls.

This role requires 12-hour variable shifts, including weekends, and the ability to lift up to 60 lbs. SAP experience and dairy manufacturing knowledge are a plus; safety and GMP adherence are essential.

Qualifications

• English proficiency to understand, read, write and speak English.
• Basic computer skills required.
• Able to work 12-hour variable shifts, including weekends/holidays.
• Able to lift up to 60 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Operate packaging systems to ensure adequately sealed and properly filled bags and totes.
• Maintain accurate and complete paperwork.
• Learn and operate computer-related controls.
• Improve knowledge of all dryer process equipment and protein in general.
• Maintain QC and production programs per standards.
• Maintain equipment and work environment cleanliness.
• Ensure proper product handling to minimize product loss.
• Follow GMP guidelines and company policies as outlined in the handbook.
• Participate in training and development activities before, during, and after shifts.
• Coach and train teammates and participate in buddy training.
• Prioritize food safety and sanitation; report safety incidents to leadership and participate in root cause analysis when required.
• Adopt a safety-first approach at all times; report safety issues.

Skills

English proficiency

Basic computer skills

Shift flexibility

Lifting 60 lbs

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

SAP

Job description

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, Hilmar Cheese Company has been committed to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. The Cheese and Ingredients that we produce create a wide variety of retail and food service products from sliced and shredded cheeses, to protein supplements and infant formula. We are a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in more than fifty countries helping bring their vision into reality.

Throughout our decades of success and growth we have remained committed to our mission and values and these principles unite our people and guide all that we do.

A Typical Day

The Protein Packaging Operator is primarily responsible for operation of the Packaging process and associated equipment.

Job Responsibilities

• Operation of the packaging systems to insure adequately sealed and properly filled bags and totes.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate and complete paperwork.
• Ability to learn and operate computer related controls.
• Ongoing Improvement of knowledge and understanding of all dryer process equipment and protein in general.
• Maintain and monitor all QC and production programs per HCC standards.
• Responsible for maintaining equipment and work environment cleanliness.
• Responsible for proper product handling to insure minimum product loss.
• Responsible for following GMP guidelines and all company policies as outlined in the employee handbook.
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off.
• Help coach and train teammates and participate in on the job, buddy training.
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures. This includes communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates as well as participating in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required.
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by having a safety first approach at all times. This includes reporting any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your teams and follow up.
  

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• Basic computer skills
• Must be able to work 12-hour variable shifts, including weekends, holidays and overtime as needed.
• Ability to lift up to 60lbs

What Will Put You Ahead

• High School diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• SAP experience
• Dairy manufacturing experience

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within the cheese plant.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.