Blender Technician Job at Ocean Spray
BLENDER/COMPOUNDER - Nights
Are you looking for a rewarding career and not just a job? Ocean Spray is hiring a night shift Blender Technician at its Lehigh Valley facility.
Why work for Ocean Spray?
- Competitive pay with a night shift differential
- Benefits on the first day of employment
- Bonus and incentive programs
- Health and Wellness support
- Employee recognition programs
- Stable and essential employment
Ocean Spray is a vibrant agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 cranberry farmers in the United States, Canada, and Chile, who have helped preserve the family farming way of life for generations. The cooperative’s cranberries are currently featured in more than a thousand great-tasting, good-for-you products in over 100 countries worldwide. With more than 2,000 employees and nearly 20 receiving and processing facilities, Ocean Spray is committed to managing our business in a way that respects our communities, colleagues, and the environment.
Our Lehigh Valley facility, located in Breinigsville, PA, is currently looking for Blender/Compounder to join our team. This 300,000 square foot plant has (4) production lines and is capable of producing up to 40 million cases per year. This volume represents more than 45% of Ocean Spray’s North American volume and is operated with a workforce of approximately 190 employees.
Job Summary:
- To blend ingredients of juice product to proper specifications with strict adherence to quality guidelines and Ocean Spray formula tolerances. To clean and sanitize juice processing and storage equipment in accordance with sanitation guidelines. To load and/or unload containers of concentrates, premixes, and rework.
- Print and utilize the SAP production schedule and computerized database for proper formulas.
- Monitor and document all ingredient usage to ensure delivery is in accordance with acceptable formula specification maximizing yields.
- Calibrate equipment to ensure accurate quality checks.
- Perform and document all quality checks and make required adjustments to bring the batched product(s) within formula specifications.
- Communicate with packaging and production planning to ensure timely and accurate product changeovers.
- Enter data into SAP as required.
- Discern quality products and container integrity in accordance with OSC guidelines.
- Maintain equipment and perform adjustments and repairs.
- Prepare blending system equipment for cleaning.
- Clean and sanitize all associated equipment within blending operation (i.e. bio trace swabbing).
- Ensure safe handling of chemicals and use of required equipment to effectively clean and sanitize equipment.
- Weigh essential vitamins (i.e. vitamins A&E) and any other hand-added ingredients.
- Ensure proper discharge of cleaning chemicals and product residue in accordance with wastewater pre-treatment regulations.
- Perform math; add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, including compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Designates storage of juice and concentrate from tankers and coordinates loading of blended products.
- Visually inspect, record, and dump concentrate rework and premixes.
- Operate and maintain forklift to move necessary containers to designated locations.
- Load and store empty containers in designated areas.
- Notify Supervisor or Team Administrator when a deviation from the process is noticed.
- Participate in team process and maintain good customer/supplier relationships.
- Report health/safety hazards to immediate supervisor or EHS Department and meet all EHS requirements.
- Perform all work in accordance with GMP's, housekeeping, good safety practices, and
- environmental regulations.
- Operate a forklift in a safe manner and comply with all safety guidelines and policies.
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds of dry/liquid ingredients that are needed for the batch without assistance.
Education:
- Bottling and manufacturing experience a plus
- Blending/Mixer experience a plus
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Who We Are:
You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what’s better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.
Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike-we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike-we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:
- Grower Mindset – We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.
- Sustainable Results – Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.
- Integrity Above All – We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other
- Inclusive Teamwork – We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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