Job description
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WWW.PORTLAND BOTTLING.COM
About The Company
As the Pacific Northwest’s leading contract packer and co-packer of ready-to-drink beverage products for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company provides flexibility and responsiveness, with unmatched regional and national reach, as well as the scale to handle the needs of any and all customers. PBC offers 24/7, end-to-end solutions with state-of-the-art equipment, in-line monitoring, and automated technologies for next level quality, reliability, efficiency and yield.
Our mission at Portland Bottling Company is to act as one team, committed to providing real differentiated value to our customers’ business by delivering the most trusted and highest quality solutions in the industry. That comes from providing an environment for our employees that is safe and promotes growth, development, and success.
Job Summary
Schedule: Sunday - Wednesday
Shift: 5am - 3:30pm
Location: Clackamas, OR
The Batching Lead is responsible for ensuring that product batching is staged with correct ingredients and blending of batches is accurate and timely. This position will support the production team in guiding hourly team members to achieve daily safety, delivery, productivity, quality, cost and culture goals.
Key Responsibilities
Coordinating with Batching Supervisor, Production Supervisors and Inventory team on activities including:- Production schedule review
- Raw material planning and batching activities
- Sanitation activities
- Shift closing and handover activities
- Ensuring production downtime due to batching delays is minimized
- Coordination with other Batching Lead to ensure shift handovers are effective
- Providing direction for the safety of the workplace by ensuring the batching work areas are maintained clean, safe and organized
- Protection of company equipment resources through the enforcement of good manufacturing practices
- Providing training and coaching to team members to meet performance standards
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives for food safety, delivery / productivity, quality, cost, and culture
- Optimize plant operations to meet safety, delivery / productivity, quality, cost, and culture goals
Skills & Abilities
- Resilience – the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Team Player – the ability to work with groups of people with varying levels of knowledge, expertise and background to find win/win solutions
- Problem Solver - the ability to anticipate, identify, and define problems. Seeks root causes. Develops and implements practical and timely solutions.
- Math Skills – The ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure
- Initiative - voluntarily takes the first steps to identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities. Anticipate needs and responds to situations proactively
Minimum Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 3- 5 years of experience working in a high-speed food/beverage manufacturing environment
- 2+ years of Mixing/Blending experience in a high-speed manufacturing
- Strong working knowledge of essential food safety practices and principles
- 1+ year of experience working with a CRM system, preferably Plex software
- Proficient in executing proper sanitation procedures
- Ability to follow instructions
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs.
- Basic math
- Excellent time management
- Strong organization skills
- Very detail oriented, accurate
- Flexible and adaptable to change
Portland Bottling Company offers our employees a wide variety of comprehensive rewards and benefits including
Competitive pay- Medical including Prescription and Vision
- Dental
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- 401K with company match
- Generous pay for time off programs including paid personal time off (PTO), paid floating holidays, paid bereavement and paid jury duty
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Account
- Tuition reimbursement
- Targeted learning and development opportunities
All within a positive and friendly work environment.
Our people go above and beyond for our customers. That’s why Portland Bottling Company offers a comprehensive, family-friendly package of compensation, benefits, programs, services, and support to ensure our team members can love what they do at work and enjoy their lives outside of it.
If you think you have what it takes to be part of a company that strives to create a working environment that stimulates team spirit, passion, engagement, and achievement, we want to hear from you!
PBC values diversity in its work force and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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