Job Description

Lead the Line – Work Hard, Play Harder – Enjoy Every Other Weekend OFF! Ready to step up, lead a team, and still have a life outside of work? At American Berry Company, we believe in working hard, leading with purpose—and then unplugging to enjoy the time you’ve earned. Our 2-2-3 schedule means you’ll only work 15 days a month, giving you every other weekend off to relax, recharge, and do what you love. We’re looking for a hands-on, proactive Lead Machine Operator to keep our production lines running strong and our team performing at their best. If you’ve got experience in food manufacturing and a passion for precision, we want to talk to you. Responsibilities:

• Planning, organizing, and executing product tests. Review logs to make sure the product is in spec and work with quality to provide a record of quality compliance efforts.
• Implement and validate SOPs.
• Daily shift meetings with the daily production plan.
• Complete daily sign-off on PR documentation, ensuring all Quality standards have been met and documented.
• Shift walkthrough with transitioning supervisor.
• Train manufacturing personnel in the quality system and related quality procedures, respond to quality-related issues, and provide technical assistance as needed. Advise manufacturing personnel on proper product sampling techniques.
• Conduct communication, safety, and food safety meetings with the crew daily.
• Demonstrate full commitment to the implementation of the Global Standard for Food Safety and to processes that facilitate continual improvement of food safety and quality management.
• Audit the effectiveness of sanitation/CIP on all equipment, lines, and tanks. Ensure proper time, temperature, and concentration are maintained during the wash cycle and recorded. Ensure all equipment is running effectively.
• Perform startups, shutdowns, CIPs, sanitation drumming off juice, troubleshooting equipment, and all other associated tasks and duties as required.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of food manufacturing machine operating experience.
• 1+ year of supervisory experience.
• Ability to problem-solve and troubleshoot machines.
• Strong understanding and adherence to safety guidelines.
• Must be able to lift, push, and pull product generally around 20-30 pounds.
• HMI Systems experience is a plus.

About Company: WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER....is our motto because our employees work a 2-2-3 schedule giving them more time off than the standard Mon-Fri job. American Berry Company was founded by Willie Traina of Traina Foods and John Potter of Innovative Sales, Inc. in 2020. Bill Hatch joined Wille and John in 2022. The trio brings a fresh perspective to the cranberry industry. American Berry Company is equipped with decades of cranberry and dried fruit expertise. We are growers, processors, industry leaders, and cranberry connoisseurs. Based in Warrens, Wisconsin, the heart of the world’s largest cranberry growing region, we partner with our local growers to produce consistently high-quality dried cranberries and concentrate, thoughtfully grown and processed to meet all of our customers’ needs.

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Local area, Shift work,

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