Production Technician SSV

Job Description

• Adherence to all applicable HSE and other corporate policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Assist in presenting all safety training classes, seeds of safety observations, and forklift observations.
• Ensure all equipment is properly calibrated and routinely inspected.
• Supervise employees and third-party personnel as required.
• Perform other duties as required to meet SSV conditioning department needs.
• Work in dedicated small seed vegetable (SSV) conditioning and seed health area
• Provide leadership and overall seed quality expertise to SSV plant activities
• Responsible for maintaining, documenting, and adherence to established plant operating procedures.
• All seed picked and transported to specified area is identified accurately and checked against production order. Fill all orders per production order instructions.
• Ensure all equipment clean-downs and changeovers are done correctly to eliminate any product contamination or seed mixture.
• Assist with quality samples, officially drawn samples, and quality data collection.
• Execute sampling procedures per established procedures.
• Responsible for product quality assessments and adherence to product specifications.
• Development and execution of processing plans required to meet key business strategies and product availability requirements.
• Proactive communication both interdepartmentally and cross functionally to assure that processing efforts are performed in a manner consistent with accommodating business demands and requirements.
• A proactive response when seed is not meeting approved Product Specifications standards.
• Rigorous Plant and Equipment R & M scheduling
• Diligent continuous improvement processing efforts with accompanying employee motivations.
• Timely execution and provisions of informational requirements
• Uses ability as a skilled specialist to contribute in development of concepts and techniques and to complete tasks in creative and effective ways.
• Development and execution of processing work instruction, task cards, JSA’s, ECP’s, in accordance with our document management procedures

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required
• AA or Bachelor’s highly preferred
• Knowledge of office functions and processes, including MS Office (Excel, Word).
• Smartsheet and data entry experience
• Must be able to be forklift certified
• Ability to operate state of the art conditioning, chemical and packaging equipment
• Ability to receive AASCO seed sampler certification
• Excellent analytical and deductive reasoning skills
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work positively and effectively with outside vendors/agencies and internal personnel and departments.
• Working knowledge of inventory management principals.
• Able to wear pesticide PPE; able to lift 50 lbs.; bending and stooping; frequent standing and walking including climbing stairs and ladders
• Ability to work in cold, hot, and dusty conditions; work with seed treatments; shift work and weekends.