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A Typical Day

Job Responsibilities

• Pulling samples for cheese lab, micro lab and independent labs as requested.
• Reporting all cheese sensory results that include input in SAP along with Cheese Grading Summary and all re-grades, 12 day grades, under-grade exceptions and others as assigned.
• Monitor grades and analytical data to keep grading team on track.
• Track and report on cheese as needed through PIN system.
• Participate in all R&D that incorporates cheese functionality tracking as assigned.
• Provides recommendations to improve quality of cheese products.
  

What You Will Need

• High School Diploma and 1 year Operations experience
• Ability to lift up to 60lbs
• Knowledge of dairy plant sanitation practices.
• Software proficient in Excel, Word, Share Point, Microsoft Outlook and Ross.
• Must be able to work 8-hour rotating shifts including, weekends and holidays

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree
• SAP experience
• Knowledge of cheese production and impact on finished product performance
• Experience Grading Cheese and understanding of cheese sensory evaluation terminology used at Hilmar.
• Experience with Historian ability to use trends and process knowledge to improve process performance and conduct trials.
• Knowledge of plant technical and QA activities.
• Active/past member of department safety team
• Completion of a cheese grading course

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within the cheese plant.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.