Lead Trainee

We are a global leader in food & beverage ingredients. Pioneers at heart, we operate at the forefront of consumer trends to provide food & beverage manufacturers with products and ingredients that will delight their consumers. Making a positive impact on people and planet is all part of the delight. With a deep-rooted presence in the countries where our ingredients are grown, we are closer to farmers, enabling better quality, and more reliable, traceable, and transparent supply.

Supplying products and ingredients at scale is just the start. We add value through our unique, complementary portfolio of natural, delicious, and nutritious products. With our fresh thinking, we help our customers unleash the sensory and functional attributes of cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts, and spices so they can create naturally good food & beverage products that meet consumer expectations. And whoever we’re with, whatever we’re doing, we always make it real
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Reporting to the Production Manager/Supervisor, the Lead Trainee will be responsible for the day-to-day operations for the Milling area/Dehydration process. The ideal candidate will have the responsibility to achieve productivity, efficiency, cost, quality, and safety objectives through both individual and team contributions. Provides direction, leadership, development, and support to associates through empowerment, teamwork, continuous improvement projects and initiatives. Promotes safe work practices and develops and maintains an effective organization with qualified personnel.

• Advising Management of manpower needs.
• Assist in finding coverage for all scheduled and unscheduled absences.
• Assist in the orientation of new and returning employees.
• Assist in training of all employees.
• At 12:00 am responsible for ensuring that weight certificates and truck manifest match raw material receiving log for the 24-hour period.
• At the beginning of each shift ensure that the Centerline check sheet is completely and accurately filled out with information obtained from the panel view and the recorders.
• Check product for color and moisture every ½ hour to ensure quality standards are consistently met.
• Communicate with lab every 2 hours to verify that color and moisture of product is within specification.
• Communicate with Q.A. should there be any product issues. (Dehydration and Mill area)
• Conduct departmental informational meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring that each spout location has a Mill Monitoring and Verification Checklist, as well as verifying and signing off that each Spout Attendant is properly filling out required information in a timely manner.
• Responsible for ensuring the net drum weight for each product is within their required specified weights.
• Ensure Food Safety by performing required checks and documentation.
• Ensure that all assigned monthly compliance check sheets are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure that that Mill has sufficient product labels for daily operation.
• Ensures all indirect materials are available as needed to maintain production schedule.
• Fill up 1-gallon jugs with Sanitizer (Quat DS) and Enforcer.
• Identifies all issues in the milling process and resolves issues in a timely manner.
• Identifies all issues in the production process and resolves issues in a timely manner.
• Instruct employees on their prospective job assignments based on quality and quantity of product being produced.
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and equipment efficiency.
• Make adjustments to equipment should quality be out of specification as notified by Q.A.
• Make work assignments within own shift.
• Manages Mill staff to attain Mill and quality goals.
• Manages production staff to attain production and quality goals.
• Monitor and change all charts in the department. (12 am midnight).
• Monitor and ensure that all equipment is working properly and that any issues that cannot be resolved are reported to maintenance in a timely manner.
• Monitor and record exhaust fan temperature readings on an hourly basis.
• Monitor Bry-Air system verifying that the coils are not leaking, and the filters are clean and in good working order.
• Monitor the flow of product from slicers to A, B &…