Owned by 250+ family farms, Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. is a food and beverage company that has offered innovative, award-winning, high-quality dairy products since 1965. Our progressive cooperative’s success is based on a commitment to quality in everything we do that extends to every stage of operations, from our farms to the consumer. Our product offerings include milk, flavored milk, yogurt, dip, sour cream, cottage cheese, Italian cheese, and ice cream mix marketed under the Upstate Farms®, Bison®, Milk for Life®, and Intense Milk® brands.

The General Production Worker specializes in the manufacturing of dairy products including milk powders, cream, skim condensed milk, milk protein concentrate, evaporated milk, butter and a variety of specialty and nutritional beverages. **MULTIPLE OPENINGS, $19.00/HR STARTING PAY RATE**

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Available to work all 8 hour shift schedule as needed; days, evenings and overnights including weekends and holidays.
• Support production operators and staff in various production related tasks
• Work within the parameters of established production standards. Meeting processing rates as established measurements of throughput per hour, shift or day.
• Maintain the quality of finished products per specifications as defined by State and/or Federal regulatory agencies
• Ability to work in a food manufacturing environment in compliance with Federal and State regulatory requirements
• Ability to advance from entry level to skilled positions
• Ability to maintain compliance with SQF requirements

Work Environment:

The employee is required to stand, walk, kneel, climb, use hands to fingers, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms. The employee will regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 55 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. The employee regularly works with high speed equipment and cleaning chemicals. When performing this job, the employee occasionally works in confined spaces or with fall protection.

Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus. Company provided safety glasses or A.N.S.I approved prescription safety glasses are required.

While performing this job, employees are regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts and risk or electric shock. Walking surfaces may be wet and/or slippery due to water/liquid products, employees are required to wear Company approved non-skid, steel-toed shoes. The employee is frequently exposed to vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold and heat, including steam. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud, hearing protection is required.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)