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Georgia Nut Company (GNC) is a food manufacturing company that combines classic recipes with state-of-the-art equipment and technology to provide consumers with both everyday confections they love and innovative snacks that continue to drive our industry. Founded in 1945, GNC has been a family owned business for over four generations, bringing forth new ideas and driving the entrepreneurial spirit of the company into the future. Our mission is to create a pleasurable eating experience for our customers by offering high quality confections and snacks while maintaining an unrelenting commitment to excellence.

ROLE SUMMARY

The Malt Ball Machine Operator will cook, mix, and blend solutions to be added to the blender, and control the hot blender to produce quality blends according to customer requirements. The role will be responsible for executing the malt ball process which includes daily set up, mixing kettles, hot blending, maintaining 5s, cleaning and organizing the work area, changeovers (SSOP), HACCP forms, and reporting consumption(s) of material. The operator will also control the batch roller and dicer, and perform basic quality control checks including measuring, weighing, package counts, and evaluating product or package appearance. Furthermore, the role will help fold and tape boxes, apply labels, and stack boxes onto pallets according to customer specification. Operator will communicate and document efficiency standards while reporting inefficiencies to supervisor.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Inspect and prep malt ball equipment prior to start-up.
• Operate the MBC cook, continuous candy cook, and pack the line.
• Clean blender, sizer, roper, sifting table, incline conveyor, kettles after every item ran.
• Ensure MBC cook follows procedures and mixing formulas.
• Fill out machine time, production reports; collect labor reports and material worksheets from every workstation in the malt ball line.
• Record all materials used in the production batch order by exact weight and quantity including dispositions, mix-ins, malt ball scrap, and cinnamon crumb chunk.
• Verify scrap in containers and fill out animal feed scrap report according to procedures.
• Report all raw material / ingredient scrap, corn syrup spills, broken bags of sugar, etc.
• Report blender and sifter scrap to operator according to scrap reporting procedures.
• Report any equipment, quality, formula, and/or shortage of material problems
• Keep area clean and organized at all times and follow all job and general production duties
• Box produced orders and preparing them for shipping.
• Perform other duties as assigned by lead/supervisor.