Batch Technician - Mid and Grave Shifts

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About The Company

As the Pacific Northwest’s leading contract packer and co-packer of ready-to-drink beverage products for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company provides flexibility and responsiveness, with unmatched regional and national reach, as well as the scale to handle the needs of any and all customers. PBC offers 24/7, end-to-end solutions with state-of-the-art equipment, in-line monitoring, and automated technologies for next level quality, reliability, efficiency and yield.

Our mission at Portland Bottling Company is to act as one team, committed to providing real differentiated value to our customers’ business by delivering the most trusted and highest quality solutions in the industry. That comes from providing an environment for our employees that is safe and promotes growth, development, and success.

Job Summary

Location: 1321 NE Couch St

Schedule:

8pm - 6:30am, Sunday to Wednesday

OR

10am - 8:30pm, Monday to Thursday

Starting wage: 22/hour, more for experienced Batch Techs, plus .75 shift differential for hours worked after 7pm.

Batch Technician’s work closely with Quality Assurance team and Production Managers to ensure food production excellence with the highest level of food quality, food safety, lot documentation, and prevention of cross contamination from risks such as allergens of foreign matter.

Batch Technician’s are responsible for accurately implementing the blending production plan by pulling correct quantities of full bags and boxes of ingredients according to production.

Essential Functions

• Stage and prepare raw materials for efficient mixing operations
• Monitor the mixture of raw materials according to written formulas
• Ensure all products are manufactured safely by following Good Manufacturing Practices
• Partner with the QA/Lab to maintain the product specifications and ensure food quality
• Clean and disinfect mixing utensils, tools, buckets, and general work areas
• Accurately complete required production paperwork

Experience and Education Requirements

• Resilience– the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Curiosity – the ability to seek, grow and learn new and improved ways of doing things
• Team Player – the ability to find win/win solutions to complex business problems
• Problem Solver - the ability to anticipate, identify, and define problems. Seeks root causes. Develops and implements practical and timely solutions.
• Detail Oriented - Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently.
• Initiative- voluntarily takes the first steps to identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities. Anticipate needs and respond to situations proactively
• HS Diploma or GED
• Six Months experience in food processing or sanitation

Portland Bottling Company offers our employees a wide variety of comprehensive rewards and benefits including

• Competitive pay
• Medical including Prescription and Vision
• Dental
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• 401K with company match
• Generous pay for time off programs including paid personal time off (PTO), paid floating holidays, paid bereavement and paid jury duty
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Targeted learning and development opportunities

All within a positive and friendly work environment.

Our people go above and beyond for our customers. That’s why Portland Bottling Company offers a comprehensive, family-friendly package of compensation, benefits, programs, services, and support to ensure our team members can love what they do at work and enjoy their lives outside of it.

If you think you have what it takes to be part of a company that strives to create a working environment that stimulates team spirit, passion, engagement, and achievement, we want to hear from you!

PBC values diversity in its work force and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.