Position Summary: The Blend Technician operates mixing machines to blend ingredients into compounds for processing, loads ingredients into mixers, and weighs, and measures ingredients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Follow all safety procedures and work as safe as possible at all times.
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Safely operate forklift.
- Properly complete blend sheet documentation.
- Stage and verify ingredients for blending to include acquiring batch documentation, verifying batch documentation with production schedule, identifying discrepancies in batch documentation, assembling ingredients using pick sheets and First Expired/First Out (FEFO), weighing ingredients, performing blend calculations including metric conversions, properly handling partial ingredients, verifying ingredients and recording data.
- Understand and follow all spill policies and procedures.
- Safely operate baler.
- Understand and follow recycling procedures for plastics, drums, and pallets.
- Safely and efficiently operate foamer.
- Complete daily and weekly cleaning of the blend areas and equipment.
- General
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere and interaction with customers, co-workers, and management.
- Regular and punctual attendance.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Work scheduled shift, weekends, and extended hours as required.
- Works unsupervised
Competencies:
- Demonstrates excellent attention to detail, is well organized, has a professional attitude, and produces accurate work product.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to understand, remember and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
- Ability to read and interpret written information.
- Demonstrated ability to meet productivity standards.
- Observes safety and security procedures, reports potentially unsafe conditions.
- Strong ability to count, add, subtract, multiply, and divide and to record, balance and check results for accuracy.
- Good written and verbal communication skills with excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate professionally with customers and co-workers.
- Follows policies and procedures.
- Uses equipment and materials properly.
- Have a strong work ethic and be able to work independently as well as work in a team.
- Ability to multitask and work with changing priorities.
- Must be proactive.
- Must have the ability to follow-up.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be computer literate.
Education and/or Experience:
- High school diploma or general education degree (G.E.D.) required.
- Three to six months related experience and/or training required.
- Or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Single and double forklift certification preferred.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to feel or handle and reach with hands and arms. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, twist, bend at the waist, push, pull, stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 70 pounds, regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds, and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The employee must frequently climb up and down stairs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and moving forklifts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud. Employee is regularly exposed to changes in production facility temperature based on environmental conditions.
