Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
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 at our Broadway facility.
As a Back-Up Machine Operator , this candidate will be responsible for inspecting and packing quality products into boxes, cartons, cans, and specialty containers in a team atmosphere while responsible for their individual station.
Responsibilities:
- Lifts and empties 20-gallon tubs of chips into a hopper for packaging.
- Inspects chip quality and removes brown, green and uncooked chips.
- Responsible to transport finished product from frying room to packaging room and return empty tubs to frying room.
- Transports packaged product to warehouse using a hand-jack.
- Uses forklift to stack skids when needed.
- Assists packaging machine operator during product changeover.
- Substitutes for machine operator during breaks or when the packaging machine operator is absent.
- Keeps packaging machine running.
- Changes packaging paper; fills seasoning dispensers; checks and changes code tape.
- Ability to lift roll stock (80 lbs.) onto packaging machine chest level entry 1 to 2 hours.
- Works in a safe manner at all times and communicates any safety issues to supervisor.
- Requires working proactively in a cross-functional team with diverse groups of people.
Requirements:
- Ability to lift up to 80 lbs, bend, stoop, squat, and stand during work shifts.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with speeds set by the machines.
- Ability to communicate and understand basic English commands and supervisor instructions.
- Ability to read and match item codes.
- Strong attention to detail and basic understanding of quality and food safety standards.
- Flexibility to rotate through different positions as needed.
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 full-time 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.