Location: Culpeper VA
Welcome to Ardent Mills, a company dedicated to helping our customers innovate and grow, with the industry’s broadest range of traditional and organic flours, whole grains, customized blends and specialty products. Our ingredients are backed by unrivaled technical support, food safety solutions and the supply assurance of a coast-to-coast network of more than 40 community mills and blending facilities, an artisan commercial bakery and a Mobile Innovation Center. We are Ardent Mills, working with you for the good of grain. And we’re looking for dynamic people to join our team.
The Role:
The Bulk Operator ensures bulk flour trailers are loaded to customer specifications and per written procedures, policy, and regulations, (including food safety, spec policy, HACCP, and vessel sanitation).
Key Accountabilities:
- Responsible for following all personnel, equipment, and food safety, HACCP, GMP, sanitation, 5S pristine, ELEMEDS (every load, every mill, every day safely), and division, rules, regulations, and safety policies.
- Responsible for customer specifications on load out flours.
- Responsible for COA load out analysis documentation and correct/accurate paperwork, including but not limited to, COA’s and Bill of Ladings sent to customers.
- Responsible for the safe operation of the yard tractor, tanks/van trailers, and load out equipment.
- Responsible for ensuring that bulk flour vessels meet HACCP, sanitation, and food safety requirements (including sealing of trailers).
- Responsible for load out flour sanitation/contamination.
- Responsible for pulling correct flours or flour blends from designated storage bins to drop load bins.
- Responsible for applying correct ingredients to flour blends.
- Responsible for conformance to customer, plant, divisional, corporate, regulatory, HACCP, food safety, and sanitation requirements.
- Responsible for accuracy and integrity of record keeping, bulk loading reports, incident reporting, master sanitation schedules, load out sifter reports, final product zone (FPZ) permit usage, load out analysis reports and records, and miscellaneous reports.
- Responsible for sanitation in the mill, bulk flour areas, ingredient room, ingredient staging area and other assigned areas.
- Responsible for communicating to supervisors and department personnel.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, weekends, overtime, and holidays.
- Attend shift exchange meetings amongst shifts and play active role in meetings.
- Ability to handle pressure and stress.
- Ability to follow verbal and or written instructions.
- Reliable attendance and showing up at scheduled time to work. Being tardy is not acceptable.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks.
Skills and Experience:
- Strong reading comprehension, writing, math, and communication skills.
- Strong work planning, and decision-making skills.
- Analytical skills to recognize problems or potential problems.
- Interpersonal Skills – Communication & Team skills.
- Good decision making, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and schedules.
Team members must be clean shaven in order to perform tasks where respiratory protection is required and the use of a respirator (including N-95 dust mask) requires a proper seal for adequate protection.
EEO Commitment
Ardent Mills is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.
Location:
Culpeper VA
Address:
1900 Industry Drive, Culpeper VA, 22701
Additional Locations (if applicable):
Employment Type:
Full time
Additional Information:
EEO Commitment:
At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills. The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.
En Ardent Mills, todos importan y todos tienen voz. Estamos comprometidos a brindar un ambiente de respeto mutuo donde haya igualdad de oportunidades disponibles para todos los solicitantes y miembros del equipo y las decisiones se basarán en el mérito, la competencia, el desempeño y las necesidades comerciales. Estamos orgullosos de ser un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. No discriminamos por motivos de raza, color, religión, credo, origen nacional, ascendencia, estado civil, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad o expresión de género, discapacidad física o mental, embarazo, información genética, condición de veterano, edad, política. afiliación, o cualquier otra característica no meritoria protegida por ley o no. Juntos, celebrando nuestras diferencias, formamos Ardent Mills. La descripción del puesto anterior ha sido diseñada para indicar la naturaleza general y los deberes y responsabilidades esenciales del trabajo realizado por los empleados dentro de este puesto. Es posible que no contenga un inventario completo de todos los deberes, responsabilidades y calificaciones requeridas de los empleados en este puesto. La descripción, los deberes, las funciones y las responsabilidades están sujetos a cambios a discreción de Ardent Mills.