Job Details

Processing Specialist job description (refined)

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• This position is responsible for all utility, processing (pasteurization) and CIP equipment within the facility, including but not limited to boilers, cooling towers, refrigeration systems, pasteurizers, and heat exchangers (plate and frame, tubular).
• Operate all utility, processing and CIP equipment within the facility to operational specifications.
• Monitor all utility, processing and CIP equipment within the facility for adherence to operational specifications, through digital or handwritten logs.
• Perform all CIP/SIP needs for all plant equipment.
• Perform all sanitation needs for utility equipment.
• Perform basic troubleshooting of utility, processing and CIP equipment (e.g., clearing alarms/faults, inspecting equipment parts for damage, inspecting product/medium flow path for contamination, blockages or failures).
• Perform basic equipment preventative maintenance for utility, processing, and CIP equipment (e.g., lubricating/greasing mechanical parts, changing air filters, re-filling automated lubing systems, replacing gaskets).
• Responsible for food safety fundamentals and reporting non-conformances to employees who have the authority to make corrections.
• Comply with all plant quality and operational safety policies, including GMPs, SSOPs, SOPs, and PPE.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by plant management.

General Competencies

• Quality workmanship in performing job duties
• Safety awareness
• Adaptability to changing demands in the operation
• Dependability to perform job duties as instructed
• Ability to be punctual to work and work when scheduled
• Competency in reading and understanding company policies, procedures and programs
• Competency in writing/recording in English, equipment values or corrective actions taken
• Competency in basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) in all units of measure and ability to work with fractions and decimals
• Competency in using common sense and understanding training/SOPs/Policies/Programs to perform all job duties

Physical Demands

Employees must be able to stand, walk, reach with arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk or hear. Must frequently handle, install, position, or move materials/equipment and use abdominal and lower back muscles to support parts of the body repeatedly. May frequently lift/move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

Environment may include multiple temperature ranges from 34F to 100F. Noise levels can be moderate to high. Work area may involve pipes that are hot (>100F) and exposure to cleaning chemicals (caustics and acids).

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Food Production