Back-Up Machine Operator - Week Night

Utz Quality Foods is looking to grow our loyal, career driven, and customer focused team, and are currently recruiting for a Back-Up Machine Operator to join our team of manufacturing professionals in Hanover, PA on Week Night Shift.

As a Back-Up Machine Operator this candidate will be responsible to help the packaging machine operator, help relieve from the production line, and more. This position works Monday to Thursday 5:55PM-5:55AM.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplies production lines with needed materials.
• Places skids of cardboard at tables and packing stations.
• Moves product from packing area to warehouse by pulling handjack filled with product.
• Must have or be able to obtain forklift license.
• Substitutes for Packaging Machine Operator during breaks, lunches, illness and vacations.
• Transports rolls of packaging film.
• Ability to lift roll stock (80 lbs.) onto packaging machine chest level every 1 to 2 hours.
• Changes code blocks to appropriate daily and weekly code and price; sets weights.
• Basic understanding of vertical form and fill packing machines.
• Starts and stops power to the machine, vibrator and conveyor.
• Operates labeling equipment.
• Assists the Packaging Machine Operator as needed.
• Requires working proactively in a cross-functional team with diverse groups of people.

Requirements

• Requires basic math and reading skills.
• Must be willing and able to stand 100% of the time
• Requires knowledge of product quality and production processes.
• Prior Machine Operating experience.
• Prior Food Manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Mechanically inclined.
• Moderate lifting (40lbs).

External Recruitment Process

• Easy Application (5 mins): Introduce yourself and answer a few key questions to get started.
• Engaging Chat Interview (20-25 mins): Share your experiences in an online chat, highlighting how your values align with ours.
• Live Interview: Selected candidates will meet with the hiring manager to explore their alignment with the team and overall Utz company culture.

Continuously Pursuing Excellence!

Here at Utz, we have a passion for exciting and delighting consumers with delicious snack foods made from high quality ingredients. After over a century with a strong family heritage, our diverse portfolio of brands includes Utz, Zapp's, Boulder Canyon, and On the Border. Our associates are the reason for the success of this company, so it is important we provide a supportive, caring and inclusive environment that offers opportunities for career growth and advancement. We also help take care of our associates by providing benefits, resources, and programs that ensure they live their healthiest lives. Our benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more. Join our world class team and help us become the fastest growing pure-play U.S. snacking company of scale!

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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