Tortilla Production Position
Essential duties and responsibilities include:
- Manually place individual tortillas from stacks onto platen/conveyor at standard speed.
- Place tortillas in the same direction and right side up on platen/conveyor.
- Perform consistent placement of tortillas on platen/conveyor.
- Inspect tortillas for foreign objects and quality defects.
- Remove, rework or discard product found to be out specifications.
- Be able to throw tortillas at company standards of pace rate and placement quality.
- Inspect product for quality defects and remove out of spec product.
- Maintain knowledge, understanding and adherence to safety policies, USDA, GMPs, QA, HACCP, Sanitation rules and regulations, and company policies.
- Throw out waste and rinse trash containers for reuse.
- Move trash containers to waste area.
- Removes food debris from conveyor catch pan and places it in designated inedible containers.
- May enter discarded waste information into the company computer system.
- Clean out debris from drain basket.
- May wash conveyor equipment as needed.
- May rinse, sweep and squeegee floors.
- Setup and position fatigue mats and stools for other workers at individual workstations as needed.
- Refill sanitizing containers as needed.
- Responsible for supplying food products to each line to maintain food production.
- Manually supply ingredients to filler machines as needed to keep up with food production rate.
- Manually refill hopper with buckets of food for pump operation.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.