Production Technician

Job Responsibilities: • Tend manual, automatic or semiautomatic machines and related equipment in a continuous production/processing operation. • Follow production/process specifications or instructions of higher level technical personnel and monitors meters, gauges, valves, flow ratios, temperatures, pressures, and related controls and guidelines to ensure adherence to production/process specifications. • Sets up machine requiring high level of precision and the interaction of multiple variables. • Loads raw material into machine, determines and controls the machine cycle varying and modifying as necessary, and unloads finished product. • Checks work using prescribed gauges, jigs and fixtures to measure close tolerances. Some machines may be numerically controlled. • Perform tests and checks product routinely for multiple characteristics using standard measuring devices and making some judgments against not readily measurable standards. • Report any malfunctions or abnormalities and makes minor adjustments and repairs to equipment. • Maintains production records and logs of equipment and product performance. • May monitor and verify quality in accordance with statistical process or other control procedures. • Jobs may be of short, medium or long duration requiring frequent change in set up and variation in cycle. • Adjusts set up and process operations accordingly. • Practice all food safety, health and safety procedures, policies and practices. • Attend all required safety and technical training. • Understands and implements those ISO 9000, GMP and HACCAP procedures, that relate to the role and responsibilities of a Production Technican.