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Production Assistant - Blue Buffalo
Entry LevelOn-site
Location
Joplin, MO
Salary
$38k–$41k/yr
Experience
Not specified
Posted
1 month ago
Skills
manufacturing experiencebasic computer skillswillingness to learn
Job Description
Summary: Blue Buffalo, part of General Mills, is a company that prioritizes being a force for good and expanding learning. The Production Assistant role involves supporting production operations, ensuring high-quality food production, and participating in equipment management and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting production packaging and processing operations
- Sanitation and participation in startup, changeover and shutdown of operating equipment
- Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
- Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
- Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
- CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
- Troubleshoot problems with machinery and partner with maintenance staff to resolve issues
- Calibrate processing and packaging systems daily to meet required specifications
- Participate in startup, changeover, and shut down of operating equipment
- Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
- Assist in training new employees
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of a high school diploma or GED
- Experience in a manufacturing/production environment preferred
- Basic computer skills, including the ability to interact with digital systems used in daily tasks
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
- Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
- Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net and gloves when required
- Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
- Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
- Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
- Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
- Ability to work in a tobacco free environment
Important Skills: Manufacturing experience, Basic computer skills
Nice-to-Have Skills: Willingness to learn
Benefits: Up to 10 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid company holidays, Great paid time off benefits, 401(k) match, Health Insurance - includes medical, dental, vision and life, Pet Parent Perks - includes pet insurance and pet adoption reimbursement, And much more!
Benefits
Up to 10 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid company holidays
Great paid time off benefits
401(k) match
Health Insurance - includes medical, dental, vision and life
Pet Parent Perks - includes pet insurance and pet adoption reimbursement
And much more!