Product Line Mechanic I
Description
Bringing our love of food to families for five generations! Blount Fine Foods is a family-owned and operated manufacturer, marketer, and developer of premium fresh prepared foods. We are an engaging team, bringing restaurant-quality products to America including single-serve grab-n-go fresh soups, mac & cheese, and entrées in grocery stores across the country, as well as for hot bars and restaurants. Help us create the finest food experiences including those with specialty certifications that include organic, gluten-free, and low sodium, among others. Join a proven team for growth, success, and a satisfying career!
This position is 2nd shift from 6pm to 4am.
Summary: Responsible for the continuous and “trouble free” running of the Retail Pack out lines, and all accompanying equipment. In the event of absence, the position will be filled by adequately trained personnel.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Daily maintenance of all Pack Outline equipment
- Repair of any breakdowns during normal production.
- Proactive line adjustments, to prevent lost processing time.
- Continuous equipment Preventative Maintenance, to eliminate or minimize future processing “down time”
- Ability to learn all aspects of processing line equipment, with the ability to teach others key primary adjustments.
- Ability to identify product variation to set up machinery in a timely manner.
- Proactive approach to mitigate processes lost time between production runs.
- Understand implications of “down time” and inefficient processing.
- Take proactive steps to reduce downtime by identifying trends.
- Understand how to react to such matters, to minimize downtime incurred.
- Develop a proactive approach to address potential downtime obstructions.
- Responsible for any processing line, equipment based, “Down Time”.
- “Your equipment, your Down Time”.
- Effective and continuous communication with supervisors to discuss any resolve any hindrances to processing line time. Making suggestions to supervisor on how to improve throughput.
- Cross trains on a variety of equipment on the Pack Out lines.
- Work in a team environment and assist Production Line Mechanics on other aspects of the line as needed.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- One year certificate from college or technical school; or four to six years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
We Offer:
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401k with Company match
- Paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays
- Education Assistance Program
- Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability
- Discounts on Blount products at Company retail locations
- Discretionary Annual Bonus Program