Blender/Processor-Nights

At Danone, we believe that every time we eat or drink, we vote for the world we want. As a leading food and beverage company, we make healthy, sustainably-produced foods and beverages that nourish people’s lives. Some of our brands include Dannon, Activia, Horizon Organic, International Delight, Silk, Oikos, So Delicious Dairy Free, Stok, Two Good, Vega, and Wallaby Organic. And as the largest Certified B Corporation® in the world, we are committed to redefining success in business to ensure that through our brands we create real benefits for people, our communities, and the planet.
With headquarters in Broomfield, CO and White Plains, NY, Danone North America has more than 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada, and more than a dozen manufacturing facilities across North America. Our employees enjoy competitive pay and industry-leading benefits (including flexible (unlimited) time off and up to 26 weeks paid parental leave), and share a common mission and culture committed to both business results and social purpose. When you join Danone North America, you become part of a global team that is inspiring a healthier world through food.

Danone North America is looking for a Blender-Processor Operator (Nights) in Bridgeton, NJ.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Blender/Processor plans, controls and executes the delivery of the daily blend/processing requirements for production through the scheduling, ordering and manufacturing of raw ingredients from concentrate with adherence to the quality specification requirement.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure all paperwork is filled out in a clear, legible and accurate format and completed with all required information
• Effectively tear down, set-up, monitor, operate, changeover and clean applicable equipment and provide quality inspections on all related items to include but not limited to OQI, weight checks, compliance with product specs, etc.

• Physically loading ingredients into blenders, scales, hand-trucks or tanks
• Following directions to properly add the correct ingredients to be able to create a new batch
• Pasteurizing, homogenizing and operating all blending equipment
• Effectively weighs and measures all ingredients before properly mixing them
• Ensuring that all unused ingredients are stored properly before the end of a shift
• Procuring of daily ingredient usage from warehouse at beginning of workday
• Complete Cleaning-In-Place (CIP) of batching, mix tanks, transfer lines and other processing equipment as needed to produce blends and batches according to schedule

• Support Damaway pillar teams and actively participate on teams
• Responsible for operation of all processing equipment
• Monitors all milk parameters via Lab testing on a timely basis and adjusts the process system to maintain proper milk parameters
• Assists with the Master Sanitation schedule as dictated by the schedule
• Throws away all trash as soon as possible and maintains a clean work area in the processing, blending, warehouse, and tanker load out areas
• When required, cleans all processing equipment and Soymilk storage tanks and lines
• Transfers ingredients, blends, pastes, concentrates to the All Safe Tanks
• Maintains raw materials by organic/non-organic and in FIFO order
• Properly completes all required charts and documentation as stated by FDA, state, and company requirements

• Ensure clean, inspect, and standards are up to date and completed in a timely manner
• Ensure lubrication standards are up to date and completed in a timely fashion; maintain lubrication logs
• Maintain working knowledge of all value stream equipment to include all support equipment, ability to troubleshoot, tighten, make minor adjustments and repairs using basic tools
• Completes PM’s and other routine operator maintenance tasks; assist in diagnostics, repairs and rebuilds of machines; partner with maintenance or others on non-routine repairs and defect handling.
• Monitor equipment for malfunctions and defects, repairing and solving minor problems without assistance and eliminating potential threats to production through maintaining equipment.
• Communicate effectively and partner with supervisors and maintenance personnel regarding recurring problems and needs for repair
• Take part in PM’s and utilize the Root Cause thought process to ensure corrective actions are sustainable

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Horizon Organic, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of the largest Certified B Corp™ in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.
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