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Amy's Kitchen · 2 days ago

Line Performance Technician-2nd Shift

Medford, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

Amy's Kitchen is a company focused on food production and safety. The Line Performance Technician is responsible for ensuring safe work practices, maintaining product quality, and overseeing the productivity and performance of the production line.

Consumer GoodsFood and Beverage

Responsibilities

Ensure safe work practices are adhered to by manufacturing workers including discussing daily safety topics in huddles, ensuring warm-up exercises are performed, executing rotations to create equal distribution of repetitive work, and ensuring adherence to training requirements

Escalate to a People and Production Supervisor any line or people noncompliance, violations and/or variances

Ensure compliance with all people safety and food safety policies, procedures and requirements

Inspect for proper sanitation of equipment and facilities and take corrective action to resolve deficiencies

Maintain product quality and required documentation

Ensure that product and date codes are accurate and correctly placed and documented

Conduct People Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) audits

Understand quality standards for each product. Taste product and ingredients for quality

Accountable for timely line startup and related preparation of ingredients and packaging

Lead achievement in Case Goal Attainment (CGA), Right First Time (RTF), and Usage Variance

Monitor equipment and/or line set up and ensure all equipment is operating correctly and safely. Monitor safety and guards for correct position and operation

Lead daily team meetings (at start and end of shift) when the People and Production Supervisor is not available

Monitor line speed and equipment downtime working with the maintenance team to resolve equipment related problems. Quickly respond to interruptions on the production line and/or process

Ensure return of finished product, Works in Progress (WIPs), return to stock, leftovers, and disposals to proper storage or staging areas

Ensure all weight checks, lot codes are monitored and changed as required

Participate in shift handoffs to ensure on time start of next shift

Work with the Changeover Coordinator to order equipment needed for next day schedule

Ensure all positions are covered during breaks

Responsible for completing all required production and packaging reports including but not limited to line performance, CGA, staffing shortages, material usage, downtime in systems (PFIS) or on paper as required

Maintain accurate records of all inventory of ingredients for the shift and work in process

Report assembly License Plant Number’s (LPNs) to packaging batch sheets using handheld scanners

Complete code sign-off on packaging lines

As part of the Positive Release Process (PC) collect and review batch sheets and disposal forms daily and on time

Sign off on all batch sheets after the review process / PCQI for daily production

Ensure Good Document Practices by looking over all documentation for legibility and correctness before it is turned in

Complete Alias forms as necessary

Print LPNs for finished goods pallets as necessary

Qualification

Food manufacturing experienceQuality standards understandingData accuracy reviewActive listening skillsProblem identificationMathematical skillsTraining othersSpanish languageConflict resolutionCollaboration skills

Required

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or 1 to 2 years food manufacturing experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Familiar with Amy's products and processes

Active listening skills

Builds and maintains relationships easily, working with diverse styles backgrounds

Able to confront issues and conflict in a constructive and productive manner

Able to train others to perform to standards

Cooperates easily with peers and others. Can collaborate across organizational boundaries

Able to identify problems, isolate causes and provide fact-based solutions

Ability to review data for accuracy and recognize inconsistencies or errors of any kind and report or correct them as necessary

Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, and written procedures

Ability to write simple correspondence

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent. Know how to interpret bar graphs

Have a good understanding of production standards and efficiencies

Can apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form

Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

Ability to take previous information and incorporate it into an understanding of a new topic

Able to see the similarities among essentially different objects or ideas and use existing knowledge about the first set of objects or ideas to understand the others

To fully understand procedures so they are used as basis for decision making

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists