Processing Operator- Weekend Night at Utz Quality Foods

Utz Quality Foods is looking for a dedicated, career-driven, and customer-focused individual to join our team of manufacturing professionals in Hanover, PA.

If you’re passionate about producing high-quality snacks and enjoy a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity for you. Join us as a Weekend Night Processing Operator and play a key role in creating the delicious cheese curls and balls our customers love. 

Responsibilities:

• Prepare, operate, and monitor extruders and slurry application machinery.
• Operate popcorn processing machinery, mixers, fryers, sheeters, and product blenders.
• Monitor product quality through direct testing and coordination with Quality Assurance personnel.
• Retrieve raw materials needed for production.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and legible records or log sheets as required.
• Enter accurate component usage into the computer at the end of each shift.
• Ensure safe and effective cleaning of all processing equipment according to established procedures and the master sanitation schedule.
• Communicate with processing and packaging operators to maintain best product quality.
• Train inexperienced employees assigned to processing.
• Follow all safety rules, report unsafe equipment or practices to your supervisor, and adhere to all Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Perform daily housekeeping of the work area.

Requirements:

• Ability to work the required shift of Friday-Sunday 5:30PM-5:30AM
• Prior experience or knowledge in food manufacturing or food safety practices is preferred. 
• Mechanically inclined with experience operating or troubleshooting production machinery.

• Ability to operate a forklift and high reach.

• Ability to lift up to 70 lbs. regularly.

• Comfortable working in environments with hot water, cleaning chemicals, and wet or slippery floors.

• Must wear non-slip to protected shoes and appropriate personal protective equipment.

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.
• Video Interview: Selected candidates will have an opportunity to participate in a video interview.
• 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.