Milwaukee, WI (Southside
3rd shift, Sunday - Wednesday, 12mid - 8:30am
$20.00
Job Purpose:
Set up and operate equipment that mixes or blends ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products.
Essential Duties and/or Responsibilities:
- Record production and test data for each food product batch, such as the ingredients used, temperature, test results, and time cycle.
- Observe gauges and thermometers to determine if the mixing chamber temperature is within specified limits, and turn valves to control the temperature.
- Clean and sterilize vats and factory processing areas.
- Press switches and turn knobs to start, adjust, and regulate equipment such as beaters, extruders, discharge pipes, and salt pumps.
- Observe and listen to equipment to detect possible malfunctions, such as leaks or plugging, and report malfunctions or undesirable tastes to supervisors.
- Set up, operate, and tend equipment that cooks, mixes, blends, or processes ingredients in the manufacturing of food products, according to formulas or recipes.
- Mix or blend ingredients, according to recipes, using a paddle or an agitator, or by controlling vats that heat and mix ingredients.
- Follow recipes to produce food products of specified flavor, texture, clarity, bouquet, or color.
- Select and measure or weigh ingredients, using English or metric measures and balance scales.
- Turn valve controls to start equipment and to adjust operation to maintain product quality.
- Determine mixing sequences, based on knowledge of temperature effects and of the solubility of specific ingredients.
- Fill processing or cooking containers, such as kettles, rotating cookers, pressure cookers, or vats, with ingredients, by opening valves, by starting pumps or injectors, or by hand.
- Give directions to other workers who are assisting in the batchmaking process.
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