Finisher Operator

Company: The Morning Star Company
Location: Los Banos
Posted on: May 7, 2022

Job Description:

Job DescriptionCompany DescriptionThe CompanyThe Morning Star Company and its affiliates operate three tomato processing facilities in Central California, processing 35% to 40% of the California processing tomato crop, in addition to tomato transplanting, harvesting and trucking operations. The company employs approximately 450 year-round and 2,500 seasonal colleagues and annual sales exceeding $800 million. We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management. Our company is operated by colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority. Each Colleague is expected to be the manager of their mission. Authority relative to other colleagues' activities is lateral and based on their independent agreements. Each colleague's Mission is their guiding principle of action, and respect, influence and success having to be built based on each colleague's competency, integrity, effort, persistence and straight-forward persuasiveness. As we continue to grow, and while we communicate this position in commonly used terms, we intend to maintain a culture of individual responsibility and Mission-Focused Self-Management.Liberty Packing Company is hiring for the 2022 season. Join the team!Finisher Operator's responsibilities include (but are not not limited to) operating the finisher at maximum efficiency meeting customer specification. While utilizing the full finisher screen life in both direction, and then labeling the screens to be honed or destroyed.

• Note all safety issues of this system. Be alert, aware, and take notes!
• Make documented rounds to ensure that the hydraulic system is operating correctly
• Continually check finish quality and pomace moistures as directed by operational manual, customer specifications, or other instruction and document these checks
• Understand all the different product and mode changes
• Periodically log (verify with hand held) Finisher RPM, AMPS on spreadsheet according to instructions of front-end mechanic.
• Finishers and finisher deck, pomace and juice tank area to be kept tidyPhysical Requirements for Job Description:
  • Significant amount of work involving hand eye coordination
  • Frequent and repetitive hand/wrist and shoulder movements
  • Constant reaching, grasping, and lifting on a regular basis of up to 60 pounds
  • Constant standing, twisting, bending, and lifting throughout the shiftWork Environment:
    • Fast paced production
    • High heat and Humidity
    • Working around hot steam environment
    • Wet and slippery conditions
    • Work on rotating shiftsCompetency Requirements:
      • Follow all Liberty Packing policies, including GMP's and safety daily
      • Able to work in a self-managed environment
      • Maintains a positive attitude towards other colleaguesApply today to join a productive and hardworking team.
        • Hiring all shifts!
        • Wages are $17.00 - $27.50 per hour depending on the job position
        • Overtime may be availablePowered by JazzHRoPqijMr1AC

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