Grow your career with Cargill in Owatonna, MN! Join our team as a full-time Extrusion Machine Operator in our night shift. Receive a $2,500 sign on bonus along with pay range between $25.00/hr to $27.00/hr + shift differential. Great benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Insurance, Paid Vacation and Holidays, 401(k) with Cargill matching contributions, Short-Term Disability and Life Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and more!
Principal Accountabilities
- Extrude quality product in an efficient manner, inspecting every 30 minutes
- Conduct and document quality in-process checks
- Ensure proper additive ingredients are being used and applied at the specified rates in our manufacturing process
- Set-up die plates and knife heads
- Minimize start-up and change-over times working as efficiently as possible
- Communicate with batching and meat room operators with understanding of product flow
- Keeping working area and extrusion line clean and orderly
- Assist in weekly sanitation of equipment
- Transfer responsibilities from shift to shift
Required Qualifications:
- Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
- Must be 18 years or older
- Ability to perform physical job duties which may include bending, lifting to 50lbs, kneeling, climbing, crawling, and twisting safely, with or without a reasonable accommodation
- Ability to work in varied indoor and outdoor conditions which may include heat, cold, dust, loud noise, etc., with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Must be able to operate machinery and/or industrial equipment
- Ability to understand and communicate in English(verbal/written)
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to work overtime including weekends, holidays, or different shifts with advance notice
- 1 year experience in production or plant environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience operating forklifts and/or similar equipment
- High School diploma or Equivalent
- Working knowledge of Microsoft office software, with an emphasis on Excel and Word
- Experience operating food processing equipment
- Industrial construction and / or maintenance experience
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $25.00 - $27.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
