Filler Operator

Filler Operator

The Filler Operator is responsible for operating filling equipment to accurately dispense liquid products into containers in a safe, efficient, and sanitary manner. This role is critical to ensuring product quality, consistency, and compliance with food safety standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Remove protective packaging from empty containers or materials

Inspect materials for damage or contamination

Ensure clean and continuous supply to the production line

Keep work area clean and organized

Follow all safety and food quality standards

Tends machine that fills pasteurized products into containers

Examines containers from all lines for seals, labels, weights, dates, and valves

Review with the lab for approvals of each product change on each machine

Observes flow of milk into machine and remove defective containers

Other duties as assigned

Basic Requirements:

High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience in manufacturing setting preferred

Attention to detail for inspecting materials

Basic understanding of hygiene and safety procedures

Competencies:

Communication: Communicate clearly and effectively through multiple channels, ensuring our messages are understood and delivered appropriately.

Accountability: Take responsibility for actions and anticipate challenges before they arise. Solve problems both within and outside of departments, proactively addressing issues as they occur.

Customer Focused: Prioritize understanding and meeting both internal and external customer needs. Ensure high levels of satisfaction and loyalty by anticipating customer requirements and striving for exceptional service.

Initiative: Proactive in identifying opportunities and addressing potential threats. Act independently and decisively, rather than waiting for situations to demand action.

Problem-Solving: Possess the ability to identify and address complex issues with minimal guidance. Skilled at analyzing challenges and finding practical, effective solutions.

Collaboration: Take responsibility for deliverables while also supporting others to ensure that collective goals are met. Able to work harmoniously with others toward a common goal, recognizing and valuing each person's contributions.

Physical Demands:

Frequently lift and carry up to 25 pounds.

Frequent carrying, bending, walking, handling, reaching, and stretching.

Continuously work on concrete surfaces for 8 to 10 hours per day.

Work Environment:

The work environment may require working in the cooler room with varying degrees of temperature and may include contact with water or dairy liquids.

Exposed to a noise level of 90 decibels. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate/high. Wet/slippery work conditions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. They may also be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals. Work will occur in a refrigerated warehouse with temperatures as low as 34 degrees F.

Maola Local Dairies is a farmer-owned cooperative sustainably producing a full suite of nutritious dairy products. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.